well damn, my bad.....ur all dialed in, the extra cfl's should work wonders for you
I also think so.
The kit I'm buying come with a 600W HPS but I'm going to invest in some CFL's anyways for the veg stage because I'll be saving money in the long run on my elec bills and the bump in consumption wont be so obvious too.
On a side note and for anyone that might be interested l did some math to figure out how much I'm saving so here are my calculations.
I'm comparing a 600W HPS versus the setting kush groove used in this thread (at least for the veg growth)
I'll calculate 2 months for the veg stage because in my case I'm including seeding and an extra couple of weeks (I've got quite a bit of space)
so basically KG's setup uses 8*42W CFL's wich equals to 336W total (not including fans etc but there's no way around that) versus the 600W HPS included in my kit.
so after 60 days at 20h/day lighting we've got on the CFL's 60*20=1200 hours with the lights on.
for 336W that's 1200*0.336=403.2 KW/h (you can get the price of a KW/h on any of your elec bill or on the company website)
For the 600W HPS we got 1200*0.6= 720 KW/h
One KW/h with my electricity provider costs about 0.22 €
So with CFL's the total veg stage would cost 403.2*0.22= 88.7 € (it's actually a bit more since you have to add V.A.T. and I think the cost has gone up recently but this is what I could find)
And with HPS 720*0.22= 158.4 €
So I'm saving (158.4-88.7)= 69.7 €
And that's just for the first growing cycle but basically that's what I save per crop.
You can do the same for you changing the price of electricity to match yours (price can vary quite a bit).
Hope it helps some of you.