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Thread: Using NO bulbs in VHO set-up

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05-10-2005, 06:49 PM	#2 (permalink)
The Salt Creep Astrea Snail Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 64 Karma: 9	Re: Using NO bulbs in VHO set-up If you are running a Ice Cap ballast look into something called a T6 lamp. They will slide right into your VHO fixture and VHO t6 is on the way, very sweet lamps. Big Al's has NO T6 in stock now. The IC ballast will overdrive the 55 watt NO T6 to about 90 watts. The advantage of a T6 lamp would be the ability to run a parabolic reflector. Being new to this board I don't want to breach any rules by posting links to where you can get the reflectors but I have measured PAR on T5 lamps and can tell you they more than double PAR output over a flat gloss white backgound.

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