A little help with lighting requirments

You should really put a 600 watt bulb in there if you're going to run it on the 600 watt setting. You can dim a 1000 watt bulb to 600, but doing so is very likely to shorten the life of the bulb.

Of course you're going to yield less with 600 watts as opposed to 1000, unless you just don't have a full canopy under the 1000 watts.

Thats the deal. With these 4 I have a full canopy. I did wonder about bulb life though.
Maybe I will pick up a 600 watt bulb as that makes sense.
I think if it cools off I will run the 1000. I need to get a better cooling system going but
Its not an option right now. My room is running 85-90 in this heat. I`m sure its not a deal breaker
but It jsut feels crappy to me. Thanks

I found a 600 to do a great job of illuminating a 4x4 space. I would do it that way. You don't need a high-zoot 600 either ... a $20 bulb will do
for this application imo. cn

Nice. 20 sounds good. I need to have an extra arouns anyway for emergencies.

the more light you can give them the better but they only need like 50w per plant as a minimum IMO

Yeah thats kind of the crux of the matter. Am I just throwing pennies away by running a 1000 just because I have it.
However if it makes that much of a difference to overload a plant than by all means I would run it even if
it was for a few plants. I really need to bite the bullet and educate myself on this matter. Its just hard to get motivated
when I know im within the ballpark lol