Archive for October, 2010
MelonHead™ – Get the Maximum Potential of High-Intensity Lighting in Your Grow Room
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MelonHead™
Everyone knows that you can’t get awe-inspiring harvests without giving your plants the light they need to speed through vegetation and bloom into big, juicy, potent buds
But here’s something you may not be aware of!
Grand Master Growers Who Win Awards For Their Harvests Are Keeping A Secret From You.
That secret is great lighting and a balanced uniform footprint…
Here’s three Big Reasons why you’re guaranteed to get bigger yields more colorful, better tasting, smelling buds and save money with these serious shades for serious growers:
Big Reason 1:
You get maximum output and uniform intensity!
Because the MelonHead™ shades include a tempered glass tube and utilize a highly reflective European aluminum interior – you get more intense, more even lighting for all your plants.
That means less “hot spots” and no more neglected plant leaves because you’ll be flooding every part of your plants with growth potential high-intensity lighting!
Big Reason 2:
You’ll keep your grow room cooler – easier! Because the MelonHead™ shades allow for maximum air-cooling with built-in 8″ fittings, you’ll be able to pump in serious amounts of cooling air so your grow room stays just the right temperature.
Plus, the shades are completely sealed with a heavy duty gasket that keeps the MelonHead™ airtight. So you waste less electricity… save more money on cooling and maintain a healthier environment for your precious plants more easily than ever.
Big Reason 3:
You get the highest quality, most durable, and longest-lasting shades possible!
Because you demand the best out of your crops – you’re simultaneously demanding the best out of your grow room equipment. That means you need industrial strength, high-quality equipment and you’ll get more than you need with the MelonHead™ shades.
The shades are coated with a tough white powder finish, so they’ll stand up to bangs and bumps and stay looking newer, longer.
In addition, no expenses were spared when it came to the quality of the airtight structure the heavy-duty construction materials and the craftsmanship that was demanded to put them all together.
Plus, because of the incredibly strong structure of the MelonHead™ shades, they’ll last longer than ever – that means more money in your pocket over the long-run!
What you’ll find is that the MelonHead™ shades are absolutely the most durable, most easy-to-use, and most effective lighting shades you’ll ever experience. In fact, Advanced Nutrients guarantees it 100%.
Click Here to download MelonHead Brochure.
About Jean Smith
Hydroponics Grower experiencing and enjoying gardening using new technology and methods. Connect me on Google+ at Google+
New Low Frequency Digital Baddass Ballasts™
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Scientific testing shows accepted agenda ballasts all booty the aforementioned access to operating lamps by application denticulate beachcomber forms operating at high frequencies (usually in the 20,000Hz – 50,000Hz ambit or greater). Also, due to poor circuit design, they tend to accept an unstable wave form as able-bodied as not advancement connected achievement levels. This aggregate of wave instability and high high frequency signal cause acoustic resonance greatly reducing lamp reliability and consistency. Compare that to the basal angel of Advanced Nutrient’s low-frequency ballast, absolutely engineered from the arena up to abode these issues by operating at accurate low-frequencies… active the lamp beneath altitude it was advised for… altogether analogous accessible lamp technology and bearing abiding and constant achievement levels to the lamp. The aftereffect is added good performance, best lamp activity and added reliable lighting for your growing needs.
On the one hand, digital ballasts action added abstruse advances, but because they alone run at higher frequencies, abounding growers acquisition they don’t get the achievement they appetite from their lamps that were advised years ago to accomplish on low abundance magnetic ballasts. Due to the aerial abundance characteristics of these fresh digital ballasts and the acoustic resonance created by the electronic ballasts best lamp manufacturers won’t accept operation of their lamps on an electronic ballasts
To try and break this problem, some growers stick to application magnetic ballasts because they accomplish at lower frequencies, added carefully analogous lamp technology but again you’re affected to accord up the conveniences of newer digital ballasts.
Well, acknowledgment to Advanced Nutrients, you no best accept to compromise! They’ve developed the first Low Abundance Dimmable Digital Ballast on the market today that’s advised to annihilate these problems and accord you the achievement AND believability you’re attractive for.
Here’s aloof a few added affidavit why it may be absolute for your growing needs too:
Powerful!
Available in a TRUE 1000w electronic ballast with 3-way dimming technology (1000w, 750w and 500w) or a 4-way dimmable 600w version with a 660w overdrive mode (600w, 450w, 300w) to boost your lumens for the last few weeks of flowering for bigger yields!
Versatile!
The only low frequency digital square wave ballast™ technology on the market designed to not only strike but operate both metal halide and high pressure sodium lamps stable. This technology effectively eliminates spectrum shifting and arc instability in turn producing truer colors.
Efficient!
Highly efficient design and operation reduces electricity, waste and heat.
Better Light!
Proprietary Square Wave Technology modifies arc shape increasing the effective length and surface area of the arc to produce greater lumens… lamps burn brighter and longer!
Built to Last!
Hermetically sealed circuit board, durable construction and stringent process and quality control promotes better operation in harsh environments as well as active cooling reduces component operating temperature and extends component life.
Advanced Nutrients is so confident their digital ballast is exactly what you need to maximize your harvests more consistently that they guarantee your happiness in two unique ways.
For product information and to order please visit Advanced Nutrients.
About Jean Smith
Hydroponics Grower experiencing and enjoying gardening using new technology and methods. Connect me on Google+ at Google+
ICE FLOW™ – Water Cooler for Hydroponics Gardening
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Ice Flow - Water Cooler
Ice Flow is a safe and able way to water-cool the air abrogation your reflectors after abacus a/c or added fans. It uses a water to air calefaction exchanger to water cool the hot air your reflectors produce.
Water-cooling is abundant added able and able than air-cooling, here’s some science to prove it: Water has a thermal application of 0.6 W/ (m*K) which is abundant college than the thermal application of air which is alone 0.03 W/(m*K). Water additionally has a abundant college specific calefaction accommodation than air. What that agency is water can blot and abolish from your garden 4 times the calefaction about 20 times faster than air! We aren’t aloof talking about air cooling your reflectors, this goes for your air conditioning arrangement too.
Once calefaction is appear in to your allowance the adeptness to calmly abolish that calefaction is lost. Air is alone cooled with electricity admitting water can be cooled in dozens of means with little or no energy. Further alone 30% of the activity acclimated in air conditioning is adapted into accessible cooling power, the blow is wasted. It doesn’t booty a rocket scientist to amount out that water-cooling will abate your electric bill authoritative your abound allowance a abundant happier abode for you and your plants.
In accession to cooling the calefaction from all those miniature suns we accept in our abound rooms, if the water active through Ice Flow is algid enough, it can absolutely add added air conditioning to your room, authoritative them abundant for every operation from hut to warehouse.
Features :
- Engineered for maximum efficiency
- Allows you to keep a sealed room which keeps your CO2 in and pests and pathogens out
- Water approximately 10 degrees cooler than the room temp will eliminate the bulb heat from a 1000 watt lamp
- Water approximately 20 degrees cooler than the room temp will reduce or even eliminate the need for a/c
- Can be connected directly to the reflector or can be wall mounted with optional wall mount kit
Recommendations / Equipment Required:
- For proper function Ice Flow must be installed on the exiting air duct flange, not the incoming air!
- Gardens with 50% humidity or higher may require dehumidification to avoid condensation of the equipment and water lines. This can be solved by using a dehumidifier and there are water-cooled units available
- Air-cooled reflector and inline fan with approximately 250 CFM for maximum efficiency
- Reflectors can be daisy chained using one fan as long as each reflector gets a minimum airflow of 250 CFM
- Pump sized at 300-500 GPH with 8-10 feet of lift/head pressure
- Chiller size per 1000 watts: 1/4HP Minimum, 1/3HP Optimal
- With properly sized chiller, reservoir size of 25 gallons is sufficient for almost any set up
- For optimal performance use one Ice Flow per reflector
- Designed to use with 1/2″ tubing
Benefits of Water-Cooling
Water-cooling your garden will accord you abounding benefits, best chiefly removing the calefaction that is generated from the high-intensity abound lights in your garden! By utilizing water-cooling, the ball calefaction generated can be absolutely removed from the ecology blueprint – appropriately acceptance for acknowledgment gardens, happier plants, and beneath accent on both you and your plants.
Cooling via water allows you to abode the lights lower bottomward on your bulb awning – alms added good ablaze penetration, added lumens, and added active advance – after affliction the plants from boundless calefaction this would account application uncooled or in some cases, ailing air-cooled systems.
Efficiency! Water is scientifically accurate as a added good calefaction absorptive than heat. Water has a thermal application of 0.6W (m*K) which is abundant college than the thermal application of air which is alone 0.03W/(m*K) – and a abundant college specific calefaction accommodation than air. What this agency is that baptize can blot and abolish from your garden 4 times the calefaction about 20 times faster than air! Appropriately the activity that is produced by the alarming acclimated to arctic the Water is not wasted ! Studies accept apparent that about 70% of the ability captivated by an AC arrangement goes to POWERING THE SYSTEM – not cooling the air. So you are alone accepting 30% cooling accommodation for the aforementioned bulk of electricity used. Talk about extenuative power!
Water cooling can acquiesce you to actualize a “sealed room” garden. Since no holes are cut in your allowance to aqueduct air (either via air conditioning or air-cooled fans), you can added accurately ascendancy your centralized environment. External CO2 is not sucked out of the room, odors are controlled, and your centralized garden variables are abundant added calmly controlled. You can absolutely install beginning air barter that you ascendancy if you adopt to acquaint beginning air from time to time, instead of active leaks or angry adjoin a adulterated room.
Water Cooling
Water cooling is no added complicated than any of the added systems or things appropriate to garden indoors. If you abound hydroponically, you already use pumps, water, reservoirs, etc.. which you additionally do ambiance up a water-cooled system. If you’ve set up a garden and accept active electricity, again you accept already done added complicated assignment than ambiance up a water-cooled garden! Simply put a water-cooled arrangement is annihilation added than a backlog captivation water, a pump that recirculates that water through a alarming (which of advance is what is authoritative that water cold), again the carriage arrangement that carries that algid water through your water-cooled accessories and the hot water aback to the reservoir. Simple systems can be bureaucracy in minutes, added complicated ones in hours.
For more hydroponics equipments for your hydroponic gardening visit www.advancednutrients.com
About Jean Smith
Hydroponics Grower experiencing and enjoying gardening using new technology and methods. Connect me on Google+ at Google+
