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I thought they regulated the voltage (stepping it up to the 000's or whatever these bulbs use)?

Could someone explain the reasoning behiind the "WTF NO!" and "OMG!!!1!!1" replies? The ballast (or any transformer) would not dictate the power consumption of connected components right? I know it doesn't with any I have seen. If anything I would expect damage to the ballast if it is not...

With the ebay 300W (10 inch 8U) blue cfl I have, it actually only uses 186W. So I expect that this setup (including fan) is easily less than £15 a month during veg (17/7). I would suggest you pop down to maplins and get an £8 power monitor to check whats what. Other than that I think try...

I'm currently using an ebay 300W (186.7W actual) 6400K for my four little girls. When they are ready for flowering I was thinking of just adding 4 or 5 2700K hanging bulbs around the plants. This should give them some red spectrum in there and deal with the lack of penetration. The way I see it...