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How to Build HPS Grow Lights
Building your own HPS grow light is a great way to save money and have a productive garden. HPS stands for high-pressure...
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How to Wire a High Pressure Sodium Security Light
A high pressure sodium light can provide an abundance of light, even in the dead of night. This makes high pressure sodium...
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High-Pressure Sodium Light Fixtures
High-pressure sodium light fixtures are primarily used for outdoor security lighting and indoor gardening. They are efficient, producing an intense light without...
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How to Install HPS Lights
High Pressure Sodium (HPS) lights are energy efficient powerhouses that provide optimum security lighting. The intensity of the light produced makes them...
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How to Wire a High-Pressure Sodium Ballast
High-pressure sodium ballast lamps use high pressures of sodium, in an excited state, to generate light. A ballast, in series with an...
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What are HPS Lights?
HPS, or high-pressure sodium, lights are a type of sodium-vapor lamp that use sodium in an excited state to produce light. Because...
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How to Dispose of High-Pressure Sodium Light Bulbs
High-pressure sodium lamps create light by exciting the electrons in sodium gas. They are efficient and produce less light pollution than mercury-based...
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Difference Between Low & High Pressure Sodium Lights
Low and high-pressure sodium lights are found in parking lots and areas where security is important. The lights require up to 10...
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Indoor Growing & High Pressure Sodium Lights
Plants kept indoors require special lighting to enable them to grow, flower and fruit. One of the best ways to simulate natural...
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Troubleshooting High Pressure Sodium Lights
High pressure sodium lights are used for illuminating large outdoor areas. They emit bright yellow light. Typically these lights are used on...
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How to Get a 400 Watt High Pressure Sodium Light
A 400 watt high pressure sodium light is essential to successfully growing your garden in a hydroponic system. It can also be...
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How to Install an HPS Light Fixture
A high pressure sodium, or HPS, light uses the ionization of xenon, mercury and sodium to create a brightly illuminated sodium vapor....
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How to Test High Pressure Sodium Bulbs
High-pressure sodium bulbs are often used in place of other powerful lights such as fluorescent lights or even neon lights. As with...
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Why Use High Pressure Sodium Lamps?
High pressure sodium lamps provide a full spectrum of light similar to the rays of the sun. The wide light spectrum produced...
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Sodium Street Light Vs. Neon Light
Sodium streetlights and neon lights work in a similar fashion, but they produce vastly different forms of light and are used differently.
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How to Compare Sodium Vapor Light Fixtures
Sodium vapor lights are a type of high-intensity discharge light that uses sodium-based vapors rather than traditional mercury gases to produce light....
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How to Make Sodium Chlorite
Sodium chlorite is used commercially to bleach fabrics and paper and to purify and disinfect municipal water. Homeowners use sodium chlorite as...
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How to Install a Metal Halide Lamp
Metal Halide lamps provide light at levels fluorescents and incandescents cannot approach. The light they produce tends to be more blue than...
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About 600 Watt High Pressure Sodium Lights
High-pressure sodium (HPS) lamps are used in a variety of applications ranging from outdoor security lighting to indoor growing lighting. HPS lamps...
