A new level of efficiency?

So there is little doubt that inductions far outperform anything though what if it could get better?

Take a brief walk with me as I explain my thought process. As we all know, any successful grow, includes lots of lights. Not to say the enthused hobby gardener kickin out the quality is any less of a grower just saying they either have less bills or more difficulty paying them with a small crop though some just want to know it was pure from the beginning. Lots of lights means lots of ballasts. What is a ballast though? For inductions it is a source to create a frequency around 250kHz. If we have 20 lights do we really need to spend all that electricity to create that frequency 20 times? Could we create it once and boost it with a harmonic generator? If we did could we insulate the frequency in a wiring grid of perhaps copper incased in cladding of aluminium to contain the RF? How much more efficient could it be? Would it work at all?

Maybe even smaller Harmonic generators at the bulb site?

Energy must come from somewhere...

Yes it comes from the frequency being amplified. My issue is the energy needed would be less if the frequency did not need to go through 300 different circuit components on 20 different ballasts. Instead we use the energy that comes from a number of sources and make the frequency once then increase it saving steps and making it more efficient in theory. Sorry Im not sure what you mean.

You have peaked my interest. Sounds like a project. I too was trying to find a more efficient way of lighting my cab. If possible I'd love to see the plans for this so I can try building it.

I don't have any as of yet. I have some 400 watt bulbs about 60cm long and some 500 watt bulbs 105 cm long. I imagine the longer ones could take almost 1000 watts. I don't have any plans and little more electrical knowledge. I was watching a youtube video of a radio frequency machine that this person was holding the bulb up to and it would light up. To test them after they are made they don't plug them in, they only hold a wand up to them to ignite them and see if there were any leaks. I just started messing with them. I have 7 500 watt blue ones coming next week for some supplemental in a 800 sqft atrium I built after harvest. Surely not enough for the entire thing though it should keep everything in veg until June when it is safe to plant around these parts.