COVERSTORY
Phantom 50 Series
Commercial Lighting Systems
E
xperienced indoor growers understand that
not all horticultural lighting systems are
created equally. In fact, there is a huge vari-
ance in technologies, efficiency, effective-
ness and overall quality between the lighting fixtures
available to modern horticulturists. Considering that
light energy is the main driving force behind plant
growth in an indoor garden, it only makes sense that
an indoor gardener seeks the very best for his or her
artificial lighting system.
When looking for a quality lighting system, a
horticulturist needs to examine the system’s ability to
effectively convert electricity into usable light energy
(photosynthetically active radiation or PAR). The
amount of PAR a lighting system creates compared
to the electricity it uses can help a grower determine
the system’s overall efficiency. However, it’s not just
the PAR to electricity draw ratio that an indoor hor-
ticulturist should be concerned with. How the light
energy is delivered to the plants is another important
point to consider. In other words, the type of reflec-
tor or specialty lens being used makes a big differ-
ence in how the plants “see” the light.
Few companies have had as large an impact on
the indoor horticultural industry as Hydrofarm. Hy-
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drofarm and PARsource teamed up to develop the
most efficient and effective double-ended (DE) HID
lighting system in the horticultural market. That
lighting system is known as the Phantom DE. The
grower’s success was the key objective when design-
ing the Phantom DE. The folks at Hydrofarm and
PARsource realize that in order for a grower to con-
tinue to compete in a world with continuously rising
energy costs, he or she needs a lighting solution that
will efficiently convert electrical energy into PAR at
the highest possible rate. With almost four decades
of lighting expertise in their corner, Hydrofarm and
PARsource integrated the highest quality components
available into the Phantom DE Lighting System Se-
ries.
Phantom Commercial 50 Series Lighting
System
Available exclusively from Hydrofarm is the new
Phantom Commercial 50 Series Lighting System. This
system represents a decade of product evolution and
refinement. The Phantom Commercial DE Lighting
System features state-of-the-art double-ended tech-
nology that uniformly delivers optimal PAR levels to
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