Re: [CH] Grow light questions
Brent Thompson (brent@hplbct.hpl.hp.com)
Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:50:25 -0700 (PDT)
> but can you actually say that you felt better after a half a day in a
> room full of fluorescent lights? <S>
Not to rain on your parade, but isn't there supposed to be some UV danger
from halogen grow lights, to skin or eyes or both? Don't get me wrong -- I
completely agree and have gotten the same sense of satisfaction and
pleasure from my halogen grow lamp (and not from my fluorescent grow lamp
setups), but I limit my exposure in that room to only a few minutes per day
(preferably beginning immediately upon arising in the morning, when it
seems to have the most beneficial effect -- as has been corroborated in a
research report I recently read, in fact). Of course, our winters here in
San Francisco bay area are nowhere near as dreary as yours are famous to be
nor surely nearly as cold either, so it's easier here to limit exposure to
brief periods.
--- Brent