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Originally Posted by homegrwn
im worried about hps here in my town two friends used 400 and both had pigglets knocking on a random talk... neither got poped but they think its the electrical use jump... with 300 watts of cfl im only using 34 dollars a month.. at least triple that so they turned em off and i gave them some cfl...
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My 400 watt HPS costs me $26 per month in extra electricity at 12/12. 400 watts is not a lot. My 42 inch plasma tv uses 340 watts. The cops WILL NOT be onto you if you use a 400 watt HPS. The electric company does not work for the police department nor do they let the police monitor their customers' usage. They appreciate the extra business and have NO reason to turn in their best customers to the cops. I especially don't understand why you wouldn't mind using 300 watts of CFLs but 400 watts of HPS is too much. A watt is a watt is a watt. 300 -> 400 is not a big jump.
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Originally Posted by homegrwn
What kind of yield you think ill get flowering with 3 23 watt soft white 3000k or so cfl.and two 45 watt full spectrum lights....letting them get to 3 ft tall. not dense i know but still a half oz per plant?
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I have no idea what kind of yield you would get with CFLs. Not worth the effort IMO. All that waiting for buds that could have been so much better? HPS puts out MORE light using the same amount of energy. One of my buddies on this forum decided to try flowering with CFLs after using HPS for years. That was a one-time only experiment LOL. He was quite disappointed.