maturesmoker
Active Member
Thank you To answer your question:would love to see it and see how you keep temps down. i'm having a hard time with high temps w/260W the 42W bulbs put out alot of heat...for a CFL that is.
very nice plants sir
I have 16 small CFL's in there to spread the light and the box is just 1 metre tall by 1 metre wide by 30cm's deep SO I have a circulation fan mounted at left to blow the hot air towards the exhaust fan at top right. It just about works but on hot days I leave the cabinet open and temps hold at upper seventies. At coooler times of the year its not a problem, the room temp is fairly constant at 70 most times of the year and temps hold at around 75- ish. Its never caused me any issues so long as you are moving some air through those buds.
But I know what you mean about CFL's, they do put out a bit of heat but with fans running you can still keep within 2-3 " of the bulbs I find, its the ballast part that gets warm!
ms.