I found this thread very interesting.... and I am still torn between HID and CFL's...
I posted this in another thread....
When I used to do lighting/hydro many years ago.... I used HID lighting always... because simply.... it was strong and effective.. and CFL's were just nothing in comparison...
If I had another large setup.... I would do the same again...
But with my auto flower setup.... I want to use around 400W with the CFL's... but without the unreliability/spikes/warm ups of a ballast... and of course much less heat and everything that goes hand in hand with temperature and HID's.....
So with my reasoning.... could CFL be better than HID in my case?