250W HID instead of LED's for winter indoor grow?

Hey everyone, so I'm planning on growing indoors for the first time ever and I got some useful advice on my last thread, so I thought I'd start this thread to get one of the biggest issues in my plan resolved. I'm planning on growing 1 plant in a SunHut blackout tent which is 2.6 ft X 2.6 ft X 5.3 ft, and the plant will be grown in a 5 gallon hempy bucket and scrogged. Now I've been leaning towards LED's for a long time, but the problem is that the room where the plant will be grown in is colder and stays between the mid 50's to mid 60's and I know that LED's don't really put out any heat, so the only thing I would have that could help keep the temperature level is a digital oil heater. That's why I'm starting to reconsider and thinking that a 250W HID light might be a better and cheaper option, because the LED light I was looking at is over $400 and I can get everything for an HID light in the $200-$300 range, and also because HID lights put some extra heat and I'll have that to help me. One other thing That I'd also like to add for opinions is that I can't vent directly out the window in this room, so instead I bought one of those twin window fans and someone else on here told me to set both fans to exhaust mode so that the exhausted air from the tent will be pulled out the window, and that will also pull fresh air in from under my door and from any other places where fresh air could leak in. Would that work? I could really use some opinions on that as well.
 

caveman117

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leds do still put off heat, how many watts wasnthe one you were looking at? and by the way you can get a 250w hid for a lot cheaper than 300$.
 
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