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1490 Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:02:53 -0800 [alt-beam] Re: RJP lighting. "Feser, Jason" , "'Steven Bolt'" , Sharon growing pot in your basment? hehe
In junior high, my english teacher was setting up a hydroponic system, and
he got all the parts from the police department. Anyway, he had this HUGE
full-spectrum grow light that was about 5" wide and 10" long. it put out
alot of light, you could not look at it. I'd like to get one of them for my
RJP, that would be cool.
-Jeremy Williams
At 11:17 AM 3/12/99 -0800, Feser, Jason wrote:
>I've had success under flourescent lights by using a combination of both red
>and blue (hot & cold) tubes. This is a combo I used in hydroponic cloning
>and is the closest thing to natural light that a flourescent setup can crank
>out. A good ratio is 2 red to 1 blue. My bots move around pretty well
>under this light, but the buzzing from the ballast gives me a headache!
>I've never tried it, but I would assume that a gro-light would also work, as
>they are also supposed to produce something close to natural light spectrums
>~ although not as good as the red/blue combo.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steven Bolt [mailto:sbolt@xs4all.nl]
>Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 10:59 AM
>To: beam@corp.sgi.com
>Subject: Re: RJP lighting.
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>On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Jarrell Clark wrote:
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>> Don't use flourescent. THey don't produce the right kind of light. I had a
>> Suneater III that rufused to work along with a few SEs and photopoppers. I
>> tinkered off and on for a while and then finally gave up. Later I brought
>> them into another room to sit on a table(great conversation piece...) and
>> after a while the thing was happily purring along.
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>This intrigued me, and this evening I got around to a little test;
>one of the prototype SunEater_III's at 60cm below a 16W
>fluorescent, all other lights off and dark outside. It isn't much
>light, so the charge cycle is long, but the `bot is definitly
>moving about. I see no reason why a Panasonic Sunceram should
>absolutely refuse TL pipe light, though a warmer light source might
>be preferrable.
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>Best,
>
>Steve
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