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Old 26-09-2007, 10:26 PM posted to rec.gardens.orchids
Duncan[_2_] Duncan[_2_] is offline
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Default Reality Check on an Orchid Light Solution?....

I still falls off at the same rate.
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HOWEVER, from a large or diffuse source such as a fluorescent tube,
the falloff is less drastic because the tube is, in effect, a large
number of overlapping point sources. The handy rule for such a source
is that the intensity falls off as the inverse of the distance, i.e.
twice as far ,1/2 as intense, three times as far, 1/3, etc.

J. Del Col