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Old 05-23-2009, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Cyphen View Post
FYI for any other broke CFL growers, if you're looking to maximize your $, buy the 30w bulbs from 1000bulbs.com. At 2000 lumens output, for about $3 a bulb, it's the absolute best $ to lumen ratio amongst their CFL's.

I bought 10 bulbs from them to start my girls on, picked up 10 light sockets from this site for about $.70 since a piece:
Lamp Sockets with Leads

This gives me a total of 20,000 lumens for an overall investment of about $60.
This breaks down to a cost of $.003 per lumen. For comparison, a 400w HPS purchased through htgsupply.com will cost $150.00 after shipping and will provide 50-55,000 lumens. Using 50,000 as the production mark, this breaks down to $.003.

While the HPS is much more cost effective in the long run, providing 2.5 X the output at only 1.33 X the input, the CFL's have the advantage of being extremely customizable in size and cost of the system as well as the placement and color spectrum of each individual bulb.
Great info and links. Thank you.
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