12- T5 fluorescents or 600w MH...

Sanifsan

Sanifsan

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should I use 12 - T5 lamps (4feet long) which use a little more than 600w (54wx12) or a mh 600w for vegging? My grow room is 6x6x6...If that helps any

any advice at all is appreciate, especially from experience...
 
The t5's are great. The ballast is built in so no need for a seperate one. This makes them very quiet. Also MUCH less heat to deal with. They also have switches on the side so you can turn some or all of the bulbs on.
 
if you can deal with the heat, and keep the mh at a decent height, i believe it will put out more light than the t5's, i think. i didnt exactly calculate this in my head.
 
each of the t5 lamps produces 5k lumens 12x5k = 60,000 lums.

how many lumens does the mh produces?
 
mogie said:
The t5's are great. The ballast is built in so no need for a seperate one. This makes them very quiet. Also MUCH less heat to deal with. They also have switches on the side so you can turn some or all of the bulbs on.
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I'm planning on connecting them to an extention cord and the puting the ext. cord on a heavy duty timer, will that work for all three units of 3 x 4lamps ea.
 
We are talking 5000 lumens. With the t5's no extra ballast. Which means no noise. hardy any heat, you have the ability to adjust the light output. I have used both. I made the switch to the t5's about 6 months ago and have been very pleased with the results. Yes you can use the heavy duty extension cord and timer. Make sure that you are not overloading system.
 
mogie said:
We are talking 5000 lumens. With the t5's no extra ballast. Which means no noise. hardy any heat, you have the ability to adjust the light output. I have used both. I made the switch to the t5's about 6 months ago and have been very pleased with the results. Yes you can use the heavy duty extension cord and timer. Make sure that you are not overloading system.
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Thanx a lot man...seriously...but I'm still having serious problems trying to figure out how many bulbs i should use for my 6x6 grow room and how i'm going to set it up....My head's hurting from all the reasearch....
 
Use as much as you can afford, the more the better :D

perhaps you could cover the walls with t5 bulbs instead of mylar.. :D
 
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