Hello all,

I have used the 10% uvb reptile lights on a couple of grows, and on my next setup would like to use the tanning bed lights with homemade reflecftors, these lamps are approx 6ft long and 100w and have 7.5%uvb, I want to use six of these wired to the same ballast but each individual lamp will be around 2ft apart, the questions I need to ask are has anyone used these lamps for growing and is there a different kind of ballast that is used to ignite flouros vs HID or could I use a 600w digital ballast to run all of this?

thanks

If you are going to buy a 600 watt ballast you should use it with HPS or MH. HID will produce much better buds

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i would not like to work in tha room fuck your eye site right up i dont think they are even good for growing under? iv never heard of a grow just using them on there own?
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If your gonna spend that much money go with HID lighting far cheaper to run and get replacment bulbs..

im assuming that you will be running these as supplemental lighting and not as primary lighting. typically, fluorescent bulbs use a ballast in the fixture rather than an external one. you will not be able to use your HID ballast for fluoro bulbs as HID ballasts are specifically for HPS, MH or are switchable between the two. you would most likely need to buy a fixture specific to these bulbs and the fixture should have a ballast in it.

thank you for the health concerns, but these will be for supplementing 1000w digital hps's and will be wired into a switch so when I go in I will have them turned off. I just had a digital 600w ballast laying around and would like to use it for this but I guess that a specific ballast will be reguired for the flouro's.

Has anyone used one of these bulbs for this???

how are you planning on wiring these..? i was just looking online and the only fixtures i can find that are made to work with these bulbs are full tanning beds. these bulbs are expensive and so are any type of fixtures. also, tanning bed bulbs are usually 6-8' which would require a lot of room. i dont know any of these things for sure, this is just what i found with a few minutes of search. my personal opinion is that you have a good idea, but its going to be more work than its worth,

Hello Best Bud, yea I am not sure if this will be plausible but my understanding is that tanning bed lamps are just 6ft flourescents of a very specific wattage and color spectrum, and I thought that the way a flourescent light fixture works is that all the lamps are in a series to equal the total that the ballast will ignite for two 54w t5 HO would require a 108w ballast, I could be wrong and light fixture with two t5 would have two 54 w ballast each one running one lamp . either way I would either buy 1 100w ballast for each tanning bed lamp or one 600w to run all six but since I have never seen a 600w flouro system then it would probably have to be two 300w ballast or 3 200w ballast, and you are probably correct about it not being worth the trouble, but for me i dont use a lot of my crop I really just enjoy the experimenting part and being on this side of this wrongfully controversial standpoint, this I think is the closest my generation has to a woodstock, where we can say damn the man, and demand change

i have 2 tanning beds at the office and they really dont pull that much watts.I was thinking of ordering sum bulbs and try them,but again they not as strong and will not penetrate like hids do,but it is a great idea and i will try it oneday!.But its HID for me!

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I totally agree that HIDs are the way to go but I do want the supplemental UVB from the tanning bed lights