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Using cobrahead street lanterns as grow lights? « on: July 07, 2022, 02:31:13 AM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
Since high pressure sodium and metal halide lamps are often used for grow lights, I am beginning to wonder if North American cobrahead street lanterns have good optics that can allow them to be used as grow light fixtures.
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Re: Using cobrahead street lanterns as grow lights? « Reply #1 on: July 07, 2022, 03:32:11 AM » Author: High Intensity
I might be crazy, but I think someone had posted a photo of a GE grow light fixture that was just a factory modified M250A (or was it an M400A) fixture, with no slip fitter and hooks on the back for hanging it. But i'm honestly not sure.
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Re: Using cobrahead street lanterns as grow lights? « Reply #2 on: July 07, 2022, 05:26:45 AM » Author: joseph_125
Yeah, It was a modified M-250R2 housing with the glass and slipfitter omitted.

Here's the pic comparing it with a regular M-250R2.
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Re: Using cobrahead street lanterns as grow lights? « Reply #3 on: July 07, 2022, 10:29:22 AM » Author: CreeRSW207
I don't know if that was the true purpose but I have seen a M250A2 lighting a garden so perhaps it was a grow light of some kind.
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Re: Using cobrahead street lanterns as grow lights? « Reply #4 on: July 07, 2022, 10:42:50 AM » Author: Molly
Since high pressure sodium and metal halide lamps are often used for grow lights, I am beginning to wonder if North American cobrahead street lanterns have good optics that can allow them to be used as grow light fixtures.

I saw an M250R2 in a garden in Vermont, it could be possible.
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