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Hi, i am a salamander fan boy and as such have had them as my primary consideration as i hover around 30k. I am also a fan of the graviton weaponry. Is graviton a way to go for salamanders, with there short range ideals, love of flame but disdain for fisticuffs and there ROW to ignore terrain it seams to me that graviton will allow for short range engagements but add a barrier to melee charges.

If graviton is advised, what are the best delivery systems for it, i like the idea of land speeders with grav/melta or grav/flamer. What are peoples thoughts?

A graviton Land Speeder is a suicide anti-tank unit, the point of having it is to put Haywire on a fast Deepstrike-capable platform to get to vehicles and make them have a bad day. It doesn't fit incredibly well into a Salamanders list because the Salamanders don't tend to play fast/forward enough to follow up on the disruption, feeding suicide units to the enemy is wildly out of character for the Salamanders, and the fluff goes back and forth on whether the Salamanders use Land Speeders at all (Nocturne's gravitational field is unusually unstable and Imperial anti-grav tech doesn't work properly there).

If you want to use graviton to suppress advancing enemies it's usually a better idea to use the Rapier cannons, since they offer more coverage while being a lot harder to kill.