norns: before I built the shelves I used to just lay the fluorescent lights on the trays, the trays would be the support for the lamps. This would have positioned the lamps approximately 2.5 - 5.0 cm from the plants leaves, flowers were often getting burn damage back then. Moving the lamps farther away from the leaves as the shelves now do, inspired me to do this: Overdriving Fluorescent Lamps
Overdriving the lights makes them much brighter, though the lamps fail much sooner -- I don't worry so much about that, I purchase my lamps for less than $1 each and for me, the improvement in plant growth outweighs the early need for lamp replacement.
Overdriving the lights makes them much brighter, though the lamps fail much sooner -- I don't worry so much about that, I purchase my lamps for less than $1 each and for me, the improvement in plant growth outweighs the early need for lamp replacement.
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