Skip the CFL's: The $20 150w complete HPS with ballast and bulb Link

SenorSanteria

SenorSanteria

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My reflector for these lights, using two:



I used an oven hood much like the one in this picture. Its almost perfect for these. Each HPS fits neatly inside either side of the hood, and the hood has a fan already built in that does a MORE than adequate job of removing heat from the lights. My room is almost too cold! With two of these running! I painted the inside of the hood with flat white paint, and mounted the lights by drilling a few holes in the hood for the chains to come through, and wrapped the chains around the cage on the HPS's. The hood is essentially resting on the cages of the lights, which are chained to the ceiling. The hood really helps concentrate the light, and the fan just makes it that much better! I had one lying around in the garage, so it didnt even cost me anything. It also has a socket to accept a normal sized CFL, which I decided to use with a 42 watt 6500k CFL. (I also have 4 other supplementary 6500k cfls for vegging). All in all, I couldnt be more happy with these HPS's.

I wish they had the same lights for the same price but in Metal Halide!
 
OregonMeds

OregonMeds

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Huh, I have an oven hood I picked up on clearance at home depot for $20 a long time ago that I was going to take the fan out of.

I'll take another look at it, might work out ok for me to use it like you're talking about. I have a couple 250w halides I can cram in it.
I'm in the opposite situation I have all halides and no HPS. I never did buy any of these, broke...
 
SenorSanteria

SenorSanteria

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OregonMeds said:
Huh, I have an oven hood I picked up on clearance at home depot for $20 a long time ago that I was going to take the fan out of.

I'll take another look at it, might work out ok for me to use it like you're talking about. I have a couple 250w halides I can cram in it.
I'm in the opposite situation I have all halides and no HPS. I never did buy any of these, broke...
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Trade me a halide, and I'll buy you an HPS. :mrgreen:
 
OregonMeds

OregonMeds

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How about two halides for two hps's? I started with 30 of them, got them free off craigslist used but they're pretty nice actually.

I donated most away to charity, had seven left, sold a couple to get my timers and dirt and stuff. Basically I've been growing for free since then...
 
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johnbell2

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bca21 said:
if a 1000 watt hps system with ballast is $300 give or take and produces 100,000 lumens, and 10 150 watt setups are 200$ wich will produce 1500 watts and around 130,000 lumens... correct?
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I know this is old and may, very well, be discussed further in my reading, but why not get 7 150w HPS (1050w, 105000 lumens) for $175?
 
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johnbell2

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just using the same argument as that person. the whole lumen not adding up thing is another thread (as I'm sure you've seen).
 
OregonMeds

OregonMeds

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If you're talking getting a bunch of these to directly equal the lumens in 1000w light, it wouldn't make sense because the larger lights are so much more efficient. You'd be burning 1850watts actual to equal a single 1000 which consumes under 1100 actual.

1000w HPS= 150,000 lumens
150w HPS= 15,000 lumens

However, there may be some benefit to the footprint multiple small lights could cover if using certain advanced grow techniques.
 
YOUNG WEEDY

YOUNG WEEDY

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Is this deal only available to US?
I tried to pick my province when checking out and there were only American states.
:(
 
cooker06

cooker06

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OregonMeds said:
If you're talking getting a bunch of these to directly equal the lumens in 1000w light, it wouldn't make sense because the larger lights are so much more efficient. You'd be burning 1850watts actual to equal a single 1000 which consumes under 1100 actual.

1000w HPS= 150,000 lumens
150w HPS= 15,000 lumens

However, there may be some benefit to the footprint multiple small lights could cover if using certain advanced grow techniques.
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so in your opinion it could actually be a benifet 2 use many instead of the 1000 watt.... what kind of tech. you talking about very interested thanks
 
OregonMeds

OregonMeds

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cooker06 said:
so in your opinion it could actually be a benifet 2 use many instead of the 1000 watt.... what kind of tech. you talking about very interested thanks
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It's just a hunch, but if you follow the method in this journal with multiple boxes, yes, it's entirely possible to surpass what a single big light can do:
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=88449&page=1&pp=15

There are other methods too, but I think that would be THE method to try if someone was trying to beat a single 1000w light. You'd have to compare how much bud you can pull per year not per individual harvest because the little boxes make a lot of their gains in the quick turn around time.
 
Kingb420

Kingb420

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So once again, for my 2x2x3h small cab box, im using 6 26w cfls now, would this be more light? And heat?
 
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