Induction Lighting for small grow

Well I'm most of the way done with my current grow but I just ordered two 40w induction lights. One which I've added to my current grow is a 40w mushroom shaped 2700k light. The other is 6500k for when I start my next grow. Just wanted to add some information here for people who might be interested in induction lighting. There's a place online that has a 50w bi-spectrum light. I decided that instead of paying over a hundred for one light I'd spend the same on buying two 40w lights and see what happened. The lights have a 5 year warranty on them too. Instead of going with inda-gro's lights I went with a company called gladiator lighting. Their prices were pretty good. This light cost about $60. But it will supposedly work for 100,000 hours. There's alot of talk about how cool they run and while you can put your finger on them I wouldn't say they're any cooler than CFL's. My temps were around 80 and they went up about 3 degrees with the new light replacing one of the CFL's I had. Up until now I've been using just CFL's to light the plant. I originally started with two but one was a male. So right now there's 1 40w 2700k induction light. 2 2700k 26w CFL's. 1 50000k 26w CFL. And the plant is an AK48. We'll see if this helps out the plant through the last stages of flowering.

these lamps have an internal electrode with no place for heat to escape. in a base up environment you won't get 6 months out of them. The driver is built right into and next to the screw in base and it's made of plastic. Put a reflector on the lamp (because it does not come with one) to direct light into the canopy and you're done for. The driver electronics get baked.

Phillips sells a QL series (60,000 hr rated) of these internal electrodeless induction lamps that go up to 85 watts and the driver is remote. It's not even next to a screw in base and in less then a year everyone of the 6 I had bought for a tent grow (55 watt) had failed from thermal overload. If you're going to recommend these lamps try them for just 3 months and see if they last. You'll see. External electrode induction for our environments is yes a bit more expensive but you're not buying the wrong chinese lights 2 or 3 times before you reach that conclusion.

Since I'm using EFDL induction now I still have 5 of the QL55 complete if you'd like them new in a box and never used to anyone interested. $50.00 each.

happy growing

No these are induction lamps. They run off of magnets. There's no electrode. And they're rated to last 100,000 hours. And even if they don't they come with warranty. They're not quite the same like the one you have. And this is also me just trying out new tech. Don't go bashing something before you see the results. I'm sorry if phillips one didn't work out for you. I'm going to be doing a full grow with two of these and one CFL once this current grow is done. We'll see how they do then.

The Steve said:

No these are induction lamps. They run off of magnets. There's no electrode. And they're rated to last 100,000 hours. And even if they don't they come with warranty. They're not quite the same like the one you have. And this is also me just trying out new tech. Don't go bashing something before you see the results. I'm sorry if phillips one didn't work out for you. I'm going to be doing a full grow with two of these and one CFL once this current grow is done. We'll see how they do then.

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I'm not bashing at all and I wish you luck. The screw in medium base lamps induction lamps that I've seen usually have a primary coil inside the lamp. That's what I was trying to get across is that it's designed different and the lower wattage screw in IFDL lamps produce lower lumen output then the higher wattage EFDL type of inductions. I took a closer look at the lamps in your pictures and they do have two external coils so now it's just seeing how well they do in side and base up applications.

pictures?