good comparason info on bulbs

StirCrazy · #19 05-28-2002, 09:37 PM

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Originally posted by stephane:
if you want to buy the 150 go for it man this is you money and reef

Stephan, I never said once that I was going to buy the 150 watt HQI, the AB is the only one I would buy and at 180.00 it is too much I think.

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by the way you said on the other post:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />personally I think dsb1829 original post should never have been made, how can you compare PAR from how much a bulb lights up a table

but you do exacly the same as him here so him very confuse here?[/QB]<hr /></blockquote>I wasn't comparing PAR here the only reason I posted that pic is because they were in the same brand of pendants so it kinds will show the brightness, but that is it... you can not measure PAR, and I never claimed you could, by looking at how bright it is.

Anyways I was not trying to confuse anyone and due to some idiots on RC getting banned and all there posts being deleted the one I was referring to is no longer available. The one Stephan posted isn't the one I was talking about.

Having said that, it never seams to amaze me on how people automatically condemn something and refuse to believe specs that have been tested and posted for information. Now I know how Darwin must have felt when he tried to introduce the theory of evaluation :D anyways I started off just posting some factual numbers, not to say "Troy your lights suck you better go out and buy HQI", or "Brad you are wasting power with those 400 watt bulbs you need 150 watt ones they are just as good" (just examples guys I am not serious about these :D )Heck I am not even saying your setup is wrong Stephan, and no one has, so why are you so against people posting factual numbers but rather to help people like myself, who are looking for lights, sort through all the myth and legends.

Everyone is defending Iwasaki's... did I once say they were inferior? No... Hell in the 250 tests the iwasaki and the HQI were the top of the barrel. Remember Iwasaki is not a normal MH bulb, if you look at the data it is over twice the PAR of any other MH bulb except the AB mogul MH and the 250 HQI, so why isn't anyone bashing the Iwasaki... you can beleive it could be that powerfull can you? And if you can... why do you refuse to beleive that there could be one brand of DE HQI that has more output than the others? Hmmm sounds like the Iwasaki story doesn’t it.

I guess everyone is scared of change, heck there were even huge arguments about DSB's (and still are) even thought they have been proven to work.

Personally I applaud anyone who goes out of the way to provide a controlled and factual test and then make the result known for everyone to see, there should be more of this and maybe we can all stop spending money of stuff we don't need.

Hmmm Darren, maybe you better not test any Icecap ballasts, no one will believe you anyways :D :D

Steve