THE END OF H.I.Ds?? Sulphur plama technology

those lights are awesome but have any1 of u heard about these lights The lightbulb of the future? | Videos on ZDNet

because of the sulphur plasma lamps size shape and immense light intensity, it lends itself perfectly to the concept of using a single remotely located lamp to light several different rooms, even on different light cycles without adding ANY surplus heat, by streaming the light via tens of thousands of fibre optic strands to multiple growrooms with a cpu controlling the fibre optic strands individually to cater for each rooms day/night cycle and intensity of light desired for each room and because the fibre optic strands only carry the light and none of the heat, the ends of these strands will be able to touch yr plants without burning at all, unavoidable heat issues for the indoor gardener would be a thing of the past! This concept similar to light piping already used in sp technology is already undergoing research and development...

Originally Posted by Londoner

....LG Electronics produce 500 700 and 1000w versions already!

But where can you buy them?

Originally Posted by crooked

those lights are awesome but have any1 of u heard about these lights The lightbulb of the future? | Videos on ZDNet

holy shit thats more amazing than the sulpher plasma thats crazy a tic tac size bulb

they aren't as good when looking at the lumen/watt but 140 lumen/watt is still good and that little bulb is so tiny

Originally Posted by crooked

those lights are awesome but have any1 of u heard about these lights The lightbulb of the future? | Videos on ZDNet

i cant watch that vid coz i cant get that flash player thing on my fone, but iv seen a vid on youtube of something similar with an extremely bright tic-tac sized bulb, but if it produces 140 lumens per watt as crooked says then my 600hps produces more, my 600 produces 96.000lumens (when new) 96000 divided by 600 equals 160. A 1340w sp lamp produces 600.000 lumens thats 447.7 lumens p/watt, ud need 4286 watts of those tic-tac lights to produce 600040 lumens, and does it say in that vid that the tic-tac lights are even the correct spectrum, let alone as close to the suns as the sp is, the sp is the "sun on earth" the-tic lights look as tho they are made for other lighting applications where spectral distribution isnt as important, the sp is designed from the ground up for horticulture.

this is a screen shot from the video


and heres a list of some lights (the sp lamp is not on it unfortunately)

Uh, people, the 1000 watt version does not produce 600,000 lumens. This light is no more efficient than a HPS which is why it never took off 15 YEARS ago when this technology first came out.

Until high power LEDs become twice as efficient and much cheaper, HID lights are in no danger of being replaced.