Category Archives: Metal Halide

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The Perfect Light for Growing or Spectating

Metal halide lights are some of the brightest lights that money can buy. Like other high intensity discharge bulbs, they rely on high pressure and high heat to convey a highly intense, blue-oriented white light that is perfect for illuminating sports or aquariums and is ideal for indoor growing applications. Like other HID bulbs, metal halide bulbs contain a mixture of gasses and metal halides that expand inside their envelope to create a high pressure environment. The result is a highly intense Finish Reading this Post

Setting up your First Saltwater Aquarium

Do you have questions about your aquarium? Are you contemplating whether you should set up an aquarium or if it will be too difficult of a task? There are a number of resources that are available that can provide you with proper instruction in establishing your aquarium and help you decide is saltwater fish are a good fit for you. A lot of people gaze at saltwater fish and wish that they could have them in their own home. Yes, it is a challenge to take care of these fish and maintain the conditi Finish Reading this Post

Metal Halide Ballasts

Metal Halide Ballasts have become the most wide used HID source in the last 7 years. Metal Halide Bulbs have a white light that is easier on the eyes than the yellow/orange light emitted by High Pressure Sodium bulbs and HPS ballasts. The new Energy Act of 2007 have mandated that all new metal halide fixtures starting in Jan. 2009 have to be Pulse Start Metal Halide for products that are 175W and above. Pulse Start metal halide bulbs have many advantages over Standard Metal Halide. Ballast ha Finish Reading this Post