Air Cooled Double Ended Reflectors, anybody using them?

So I'm gonna make the switch and add 4 gavitas to my room to replace 7 ac 1000w reflectors.
I was thinking about trying these air cooled double ended fixtures and I was curious if anyone has some feedback on them? I tried the search with no luck but I was hoping on these reflectors doing the job so I can keep my 600w vertical drops with out having to upgrade the ac.

Somebody here must be using ac de reflectors......???

For future reference just in case somebody searching wants to know; i couldn't find a legit answer so I called gavita and they told me that the glass on sealed fixtures reduces the lamp efficiency by 10 percent on double ended lamps.
Looks like I'm getting another a/c unit.

bottletoke said:

For future reference just in case somebody searching wants to know; i couldn't find a legit answer so I called gavita and they told me that the glass on sealed fixtures reduces the lamp efficiency by 10 percent on double ended lamps.
Looks like I'm getting another a/c unit.

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What size unit and what brand do you usually deal with?

I have a 5 ton Lennox capable of maintaining 6 zones but i'm currently only using 4. I have 2 zones set up in my flower (the room Im putting the gavitas in), 1 in my veg and 1 in my mother/clone room.

Made a mistake, it's a 5 ton trane w/5 zone capability. The ceiling cassettes are lennox.

The ac DE by grow lite are probably the best air cooled DE reflectors available. Nice and light high quality and lots of thought went into them. I'd give those a look over pretty much anything else

I wouldnt bother with the ac double ended reflectors. Ive seen them....where the air passes over the top of the reflector....no glass. Ive never used them i could be all wrong but it seems like a gimmick to me. To keep air cooled hoods still relevant and selling with the new double ended technilogy everyone is switching to. Using mulitple double ended lamps you would still need air conditioning in the room? Seems to me anyways. Epsecially in the wamrer months. Bringing in warm outside air to pass over a warm reflector....just doesnt add up.

Which one day to run those gavitas!!

And if I have the money Ill get the lumatek virsion with the double end lumatek reflector.

Even better!

All the best

Bubble