FlipAPenny
Well-Known Member
So I'm curious to know where the heck you got a 600 digitial ballast for $119. You tell me where and I'm in the MH/HPS business within the week.the cfls will veg ok but when its time to flower thats not really enough and you have to change spectrums so you have to buy the the other type of cfl at that point.Think they come in 2700k spectrum and 6700k spectrum for cfls.Like lets look at my flowering lights.I use 2 600 watt digital ballasts with 2 600 watt enhanced spectrum bulbs.The bulbs give off 98000 lumnes each in a standard ballast.The digital ballast are overdrived giving 30% more lumnes so thats 130666 lumnes per bulb or 261332 lumnes per grow of enhanced spectrum light which uses the red hps with the enriched blue light to help keep sites compact and tight.Your using 12800 lumnes total so a fraction of what is needed and its the wrong color spectrum for flower so you have to replace the veg cfls with flower spectrum cfls which give even less lumnes.So point is its a waste.A 600 watt digital switcahble ballast cost $119 new and $29.99 for a reflecter and the bulb $25 new on ebay so for 175 you can have a 600 watt digiatl mh/hps setup that uses less power then the cfls and is cool running and not a fire hazard.MAke sense now?