Kaptain Kron
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150 for an led you be hard pressed for that area your ginna need at least a black star 240 panel and that's like 250 not sure about the t5 setup tho but 150 will get u a 4 bulb 4' fixture
LED Without LEDs -My First T5 Grow
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organicbynature
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The Blackstar 240 is running $280 these days, though you can get it for $270 with free shipping if you call them. Might be able to talk them down lower.
PetFlora
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Problem with 4 bulb T5. Unless you are growing only cola phenos it won't work. BK-1 (my lovely first coral bulb effort) takes up a solid 2ft square footprint. The 8 bulb is barely big enough. Now that said, The 8 bulb BB allows you to run blubs in sets of 2, so you can run half at a time to save on electric. You can also do a modified 12/12 from seed, or clone
Kaptain Kron
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Your info is flawed call em and it's dropped to 240-250 shipped trust me I bought mine damn near a year and a half ago they aren't raisin prices on em if anything they goin down
Kaptain Kron
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That's the eBay price you posted I don't know anyone who hasn't called em direct and got cheaper prices
imlovnit24/7
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Basically I need to save a bit more then...dam i was hoping to upgrade real soon. If anything else to help me in persuit if educating myself on NM wave and photosynthasis, I'm having a hard time finding charts and understandable info. Anyone got any good links?
canadian1969
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Kaptain Kron
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Yep do your research I will have a few nice pics comn in my journal. Well actually one really of my blue dream under LEDs in week five. It's gonna go for eleven this time least that's what I'm shooting for chunking up nice already gonna have some fatties on her I'm in a 3-3-5 cab with air floor and a six inch inline evacuating the box. Passive intake runnin a blackstar 240 and a kessil. I want to switch my mother can to another flower booth and build a bigger mouse room and run the aquarium bulb t5 rigs
organicbynature
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I ordered more recently than that, but I did do my math wrong (I bought more than 1). I got mine for 260 ea. Like I said, might be able to talk them down more, but that's what he offered me.
Kaptain Kron
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Good to know man thanks
Kaptain Kron
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Umm lol excuse me. We were answering a question someone had.
Triplezero1
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I'm almost ready to assemble my new cabinet(40" x 40" x 7'). I did change the quantity of T5 lighting I'm planning on using. My original design was a larger room split into 2 spaces. But now I have decided to use separate cabinets for each flowering setup. I am an LED user already(jumbo 180), so I plan on using the LEDs for top light but want to use the aquarium T5's for surround side lighting. I would like some input as to which combination of T5's I should use. I have a remote ballast setup, Four 4' bulbs per side. What would be the best mixture of color for each 4 bulb array? I was thinking of one full spectrum, two reds, and a blue/red. This is for flowering only.
Dont Fear The Reefer
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What are "Red Lifes" and where do you get them? Sounds like something I could use for the flowering stage of my CFL grow....
cabbagesXradia
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what we are trying to do here is get the cost down and get quality meds this is on of the best threads ive come across yet on this site i cannot speak for every one but i started getting into t5 lighting due to the fact i didnt have enough money for led so i figuered i would copy cat one . at first i was going to try and get just some red bulbs for flowering i didnt realize all these other spectrums and the nms they peak at the profess has brought this to my attention thanks profess i have pics coming soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kaptain Kron
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IMO with blackstar around its been gettin really hard to justify t5 lighting I mean how much does an 8 bulb four foot bad boy run? About the same as a blackstar 500 that draws three hundred actual watts this is ginna he ya real close if not right there with a 600 hid. That being said I love the t5 lighting I want to compare the LEDs now to t5 as bids have been truly waxed by LEDs reason why no one believes it is no one does watt for watt comparisons. Do us and you will see LEDs walk all over hid. This begs to question now the differences between t5 and led maybe the t5s are actually better. It remains to be seen bu what's been proven is they are way viable shit I've seen good nug come off of dual spectrum t5 rigs take Myles for example lol