What type of ballast do you use

bryan oconner · Dec 22, 2016

Anonymous... said:
Got few days before I place the order so I'm still looking shopping and doing research

Your not bothering any body post . now if you know me I don't bother anybody I just piss them off ! So you k ow keep this in consideration . I have magnetic ballasts as well . I honestly can't say I see any differences. With plants or lights . and a magnetic will cost 100 in any hydro shop . they do make a bit more noise . and this Solis tek you will be able to throw different bulls in it like a 600 mh for veg no need to run 1000 watts in veg if your flowerig with only 1000 . as long as the ballast is set to 600 watts u can use a 600 watt bulb in Solis tek . I talked directly to the manufacturer about this I do it all the time. Can't dim a mh it will greatly burn it out. But yes you can dim a HP's but change the spectrum actually worse then putting the suggest size bulb in according g to hortilix if there are any typos I can't preread on a shit phone

Anonymous... · Dec 22, 2016

bryan oconner said:
Your not bothering any body post . now if you know me I don't bother anybody I just piss them off ! So you k ow keep this in consideration . I have magnetic ballasts as well . I honestly can't say I see any differences. With plants or lights . and a magnetic will cost 100 in any hydro shop . they do make a bit more noise . and this Solis tek you will be able to throw different bulls in it like a 600 mh for veg no need to run 1000 watts in veg if your flowerig with only 1000 . as long as the ballast is set to 600 watts u can use a 600 watt bulb in Solis tek . I talked directly to the manufacturer about this I do it all the time. Can't dim a mh it will greatly burn it out. But yes you can dim a HP's but change the spectrum actually worse then putting the suggest size bulb in according g to hortilix if there are any typos I can't preread on a shit phone

I'm not worried about vegging I have a 4ft 8 bulb t5 I plan to use outside the tent for vegging. Inside the tent will be 12/12 for ever.

bryan oconner · Dec 22, 2016

No the start up on a Solis tek will. Of burn the smaller bulb out its a soft start or smart start ballast . I kn ow somebody will comment on this telling you not to .trust me

Anonymous... · Dec 22, 2016

Here's my set up as of nowSorry tent is closed n off I'll show inside later

bryan oconner · Dec 22, 2016

The metal halide is way faster then the t5 once they get over 3 inches tall mh will shave off weeks so you know

bryan oconner · Dec 22, 2016

You may want to read up on how to top the plants . OK the bigger place ts ate starting to flower. Your flowering the small plants to right now ?

bryan oconner · Dec 22, 2016

Under a 1000 watts you need to veg the plants at least 8 inches tall finish height will be about 20 inches.

Bareback · Dec 22, 2016

bryan oconner said:
Your not bothering any body post . now if you know me I don't bother anybody I just piss them off ! So you k ow keep this in consideration . I have magnetic ballasts as well . I honestly can't say I see any differences. With plants or lights . and a magnetic will cost 100 in any hydro shop . they do make a bit more noise . and this Solis tek you will be able to throw different bulls in it like a 600 mh for veg no need to run 1000 watts in veg if your flowerig with only 1000 . as long as the ballast is set to 600 watts u can use a 600 watt bulb in Solis tek . I talked directly to the manufacturer about this I do it all the time. Can't dim a mh it will greatly burn it out. But yes you can dim a HP's but change the spectrum actually worse then putting the suggest size bulb in according g to hortilix if there are any typos I can't preread on a shit phone

I hope Santa gets you a new phone bro lol . Merry Christmas

Anonymous... · Dec 22, 2016

Lol OK first I know all about topping and firming LST scrog sog all of it been trying a few diff ways so far I think I like topping with a lil LST. But now I have the tent and soon the 1000w I'm going to try to grow them taller with just toppong. Second the small plants u see in cups are deff not flowering there under the t5 along with two auto flowers(which I will never buy again) and are on 24/0 light schedule.

Anonymous... · Dec 22, 2016

My plants in the tent which I'll take a pic of when the lights come on are starting flowering. My goal is to only flower in the tent. And veg in the corner under t5s so I can harvest new plants about every month to two months.

Anonymous... · Dec 22, 2016

Its just enough for me and maybe I can actually make it past the first month of curing. I got less than oz left of my last girl and its only been curing about 3 weeks give or take a few days

Odin* · Dec 22, 2016

Most of mine are...

But I still have some of these from back when they were branded as "Humboldt Micro Mole".

I have a bunch of these...

Some of these...

and these...

Just got some of these. Working fine so far, faint hum from the internal fans.

And I still have a bunch of dinosaurs in the boneyard. Some real oldies in there.

Anonymous... · Dec 22, 2016

I've heard about the gavita I just can't drop 400 bucks on a ballast

Budley Doright · Dec 22, 2016

Anonymous... said:
Also guys I could care less about the smell so can I skip buying the charchol filter and just get a bad ass inline fan?

Yes

. Get a controller so you can dial it in as required. Must be nice not to worry about smell, Perhaps that be the case here come spring

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Mroutdoors · Dec 22, 2016

I'm using a 1000 watt Extrasun digital dimmable ballast. Working great and the light bill is lower than I thought it would be

orangeade5 · Dec 22, 2016

Anonymous... said:
I've heard about the gavita I just can't drop 400 bucks on a ballast

I'm using gavita and nanolux double ended fixtures, always battleing height but they work great. A complete nanolux 1000 watt dimmable double ended is only about $350, less if you look for deals or buy a bunch of them at once. Not very ideal for a tent, but I do use one in a 6.5 ft tall spare tent and flower very small plants in there untopped SOG style. Just gotta have good ventilation as those things run very hot.

bryan oconner · Dec 22, 2016

those solis tek ballast are put into combos with double ended hps bulbs and hoods . it actually attaches to a set up so it will look just like a gavita once solid unit . get the solis tek most universal ballast . and you can split it into 2 600 watt bulbs and run 2 hoods all you need to get is a 65 dollar a http://hydrobuilder.com/digital-splitter.html?dzid=cpcgaw_solis tek splitter_e_c_61132386162&gclid=Cj0KEQiAkO7CBRDeqJ_ahuiPrtEBEiQAbYupJf5aX-HzpT7SivqvHDx8YJxqqIH3ZjLQmFRQAIzQ0sUaAqTx8P8HAQ no other ballast can compete with solis tek . there warranty company replace a ballast i had pop and it was out of warranty . i bought a few items from them they know whats up ;

mattman998 · Dec 22, 2016

Kinda funny how much you recommend the tent when you also say that there are light leaks. That's like the one reason to buy a tent - no light leaks.

Anonymous... · Dec 23, 2016

The light leaks are so minimal its tiny ass pin holes and only few and can only be seen while looking very hard a tad of duck tape and its completely light proof and for 100 bucks I'll recommend it till I die nice ass quality very strong and sturdy. I'm happy with it BC the light leak was such an easy fix.

Anonymous... · Dec 23, 2016

mattman998 said:
Kinda funny how much you recommend the tent when you also say that there are light leaks. That's like the one reason to buy a tent - no light leaks.

Nothing is 100% light proof all tents have some kinda leak and to spend 100 and a roll of tape vs 400 bucks lol I'll take the tape bro.

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