12,000 watt metal halide bulb 900,000 lumens.

espoker19

espoker19

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HotShot7414

HotShot7414

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Only $8,429 wow lemme go get one now,that light is overkill unless you growing 240 plants from seed to finish.I hope your joking about getting this cause
you will have the hottest house around literally,and 1 fan is cool if it's one of those 5x5 industrial fans lol
 
nick88

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! the price is outrageous . How many 1k's could you buy for that?
How you gonna fire that big bitch off? Ballast and power feed. Cause theres no way thats gonna run on 120.
Bulb life is only 300 hrs, and if you veg 18hrs a day your screwed.
Hope your growing in a walk in cooler cause thats the only thing gonna keep that monster cool
 
HotShot7414

HotShot7414

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nick88 said:
! the price is outrageous . How many 1k's could you buy for that?
How you gonna fire that big bitch off? Ballast and power feed. Cause theres no way thats gonna run on 120.
Bulb life is only 300 hrs, and if you veg 18hrs a day your screwed.
Hope your growing in a walk in cooler cause thats the only thing gonna keep that monster cool
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I could literally buy over 50 1k systems with hps and mh bulbs for that amount
 
nick88

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Thats about as good as the post with someone asking if you could snort stems and seeds..
Thats just bulb price. How much does the ballast or whatever you have to use to fire the puppy off with cost?
 
HotShot7414

HotShot7414

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nick88 said:
Thats about as good as the post with someone asking if you could snort stems and seeds..
Thats just bulb price. How much does the ballast or whatever you have to use to fire the puppy off with cost?
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It runs on magic and wishful thinking of course,I'd actually hate to see one of those things fired up,it would be like looking at the sun
i just can't imagine being under all that heat trying to tend 240 plants.
 
nick88

nick88

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HotShot7414 said:
It runs on magic and wishful thinking of course,I'd actually hate to see one of those things fired up,it would be like looking at the sun
i just can't imagine being under all that heat trying to tend 240 plants.
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Be like trying to farm in the sahara
 
Warlock1369

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There is no bulb that size. That's why it is a joke. It would take a 12kvw gem just to power that and the start up amps would be massive. Anybody thinking this is real should buy it.
 
espoker19

espoker19

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I found a ballast. Its a mole richardson 12,000 watter. Just sent that bastard a price request since they don't list the price. I'm gonna prolly use the bulb in a 24" X 24" dresser cabinet. I have two 4 watt PC fans should be more then enough cooling. I'll keep the light about 10 inches above the plants at first.
I'll have to buy 2 new bulbs every grow but it should pay itself off in about 10,000 years.
http://www.icon-pr.com/bsearch/search_v2.cfm?search_keyword=Mole-Richardson&brand=Mole-Richardson&CFID=106301188&CFTOKEN=65297888
 
mr2shim

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It's a real lamp you dumb asses. It's for a commercial film projector and other commercial applications. You think that's crazy, look up a lamp for an imax projector.


The more you know.

Also..

http://www.1000bulbs.com/product/68707/SYLVANIA-54324.html

Yea 1000bulbs.com is totally a scam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrargyrum_medium-arc_iodide_lamp

Hydrargyrum medium-arc iodide, or HMI, is a Osram brand metal-halide gas discharge medium arc-length lamp manufactured for the film and entertainment industry. Hydrargyrum is Latin for mercury (Hg).
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It's very real.
 
mr2shim

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Warlock1369 said:
There is no bulb that size. That's why it is a joke. It would take a 12kvw gem just to power that and the start up amps would be massive. Anybody thinking this is real should buy it.
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The lamphouse on top of the IMAX projector utilizes two 15,000-watt liquid-cooled, short-arc xenon lamps. The lamps weigh 10 pounds each, and are nearly two feet in length. Costing more than $6,000 each, the lamps have a life expectancy of only about 1,200 hours of operation and are replaced 4 times per year. Because of the extreme high-pressure xenon gas inside the quartz glass envelope of the lamp, projectionists must wear ballistic safety gear when changing out a lamp. If dropped, the xenon lamp would explode with the destructive force of a hand grenade.

The average luminance of one of these xenon lamps is approximately 1.6 billion candles per square yard--about equal to that of the Sun as viewed from the Earth's surface! The lamp has a light output of approximately 600,000 lumens. NASA uses this same type of lamp at the Kennedy Space Center to illuminate the Space Shuttle at night on the launching pad.

During normal operation, the clear quartz glass envelope of the lamp has a surface temperature of about 1,300 degrees. To prevent the lamp from overheating, it has coolant "jackets" that allow cool distilled water to be pumped around the electrodes at the flow rate of 8 gallons per minute and a pressure rate of 100 psi. In addition, an exhaust fan removes 1,200 cubic feet of air per minute from the lamphouse. The xenon lamps operate at 37.5 volts DC, and 400 amperes of current.
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Warlock1369

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I miss spoke. I was meaning for growing. Not industrial use. Look at HIDs for cars. That clearly shows there are was to use high watt lights but not for growing. Sorry for not clearing that up.
 
mr2shim

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Warlock1369 said:
I miss spoke. I was meaning for growing. Not industrial use. Look at HIDs for cars. That clearly shows there are was to use high watt lights but not for growing. Sorry for not clearing that up.
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Oh yea, for growing it's completely illogical. I was about to say! Warlock is smarter than this... I don't think there's a normal house that could handle the amp draw of that lamp. You'd never get it to arch. What would it be 62 amps? LOL good luck with that on a 10 amp breaker. Would blow your entire house.
 
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