54" H? That's pretty deep for an LED hood topside. If most of your plants are embedded at or near the bottom, I would think you might need the quad linear hood.
I agree thats deep, and this light wont cut it but as to Flos thats not how PAR works
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So a Quad fixture, for a 30 inch cage is going to run you 4,560 Lumens, fresh bulbs. T5s lose quite a bit of light output the first few months, and then slowly lose more, so reduce that by 10% over the life of the bulb (about a year) on average.
That Beamswork DA is 4800 lumens, Zero loss, thats already more light than a Quad T5, for less wattage and less heat. 60ws vs 40ws. Also remember he will still need a Single T5 for UVB, so we have 1140 lumens, on top of the 4800, thats almost 6k lumens vs the Quads 4k.
The PAR for either will be utterly pathetic, and that Schefflera forget about it lol, Hibiscus, ya isnt going to happen. Not with that height with that light. The Ficus is tall, and may be okay. The fern doesn't like bright light and the pothos is pretty uncaring, they will be fine kind of. That said I dont see the Fern, and why is the pothos on floor?
A little ground cover is cool, but the cham will rarely go there, those plants need to be hanging, at least the Pothos, where the cham can actually use them.
So now, super deep cage, get light down the canopy. You have 2 options, way more light or directional light.
You have to remember that Beamswork is made for a small fish tank, they dont have depth and depth is the enemy of light. I have 5k Lumens in my 18inch tall bug vivs, and they are 18x18x18.
Easiest way, would likely be the Beamswork, in the frontish area, with a T5 in the backish Area (The UVB) with a Flanked, Basking light and 2 Jungle Dawn Spots. This will give you about 14k lumens, and lots of light down in the middle of the cage and decently lit floor.
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That will net you decent lighting, with out spending too much, and should allow higher light plants to thrive. You can adjust the JD spots accordingly, closer to the basking or away to cover the cage, 4 may prove more optimal if you can swing it, but 2 is a good start.
Second option, Holy Lumens Batman
. Just make it super bright in the canopy, so the PAR will travel. I run 45k Lumens in a 4x2x4. You can do this with Custom built COB arrays, it can be simple and cheapish to complex and expensive. If you go this route, I would run a 4 COB Flank, and mix reflectors as needed to get your light right. You could also use COBs instead of JDs (better) and add reflectors as desired, 80-90s would likely be fine and give good canopy spread. JDs are 60 degree, but they are half as bright as the COBs I would use.
If you find the Beamswork doesnt light the back half enough in canopy top and gives shadowing the UVB cant conquer, you can double the beamswork, and push the UVB back, the Beamsworks are pretty slim and it would improve gradients with proper placed branches, allowing UVB only, Basking and UVB and Basking only. You could also drop the beamswork, and replace it with a 6500k flo in front to fix the mismatched lighting issues. They will give good top level illumination with the spots, to provide even lighting.
