Hello friend, its dependent off strength off light fixtures or better said haw much you drive it on what current. It can go to 8-10inch but i not going below 12 inch ,
Light that penetrate
@10inch will have more energy on tops off plant and less impacts to middle or bottom part off plants because it don't have enough power to pernitrate. If you have light @ 24inch from canopy and same PAR value on tops , you will have much better penetration to bottom, because you have more photons