the thermometer is on the floor? if so, too hot! need some venting

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yea im going to lift the lid off it.
hopefully no one snoops around in the closet for a little.
They will be in this set up until saturday, then I will be able to re-locate to a better spot/setup

tomorrow im going to get a small fan to put in there.
would it be ok to put a y splitter into a y splitter so i could have 4 lights using on outlet? thank you

you could do that, 4 27w bulbs, that's not much wattage
but as you can see, heat builds in your box, have to balance that heat with venting

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okay good.
its actually going to be a mix of 27,20 and 27,23

. 27 watters are 5500k and the other 2 are 2700k so the ratio isn't optimal but the more light the better?

ratio should be fine, i used just 5500k and i had great vegging results
when at the seedling stage, you really don't need more than 1 bulb provided your bulb is up close, say 2 inches away
as the plant grows, that's when the cfl's need to become more numerous
but as long as you can keep the grow area temp under control, extra light is no harm

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get rid of the foil and use mylar

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or at least go buy some foil tape and tape the sides of the box so they are perfectly flat... wrinkles cause heat spot, and heat spots are no bueno! With such a small setup it might not be worth it to get a roll of mylar, although if u think ur going to expand in the future then get the mylar, that shits money

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1) Don't use foil, it creates Hot Spots...think along the lines of using a magnifying glass to burn ants. Even white paper/paint is better than aluminum/tin foil.

2) You might as well bump up the wattage on all of those bulbs so they are the same...27 watts. (Or, you can go out and buy the 42W versions...though I can only find them in 2700K in my area). Even if you ran 4 of those 27W CFLs through one cord, you are still using about the same wattage as a single 100W incandescent bulb (the ones with the classic light bulb shape that everyone used in their homes for decades)...so don't worry too much about causing yourself electrical issues with those.

2b) One nice thing about the CFLs, and the fact that the 42W lights are usually 2700K, is that you can run say...4...27 watt bulbs for roughly 100W of total light power during veg, and then simply swap all the bulbs for 42W 2700k versions in flower...effectively doubling your light power for the flowering stage, which is something a lot of people like to do anyway. (2700K is generally considered best CFL for flower because it is the more 'red' light).

its nt the wattage you gota worrie about running through the same cords, its the amps.

an average light bulb runs at about 0.5 -0.6 amps.so hw eva many you choose to run through the same lead make sure the fuse in the plug is higher than the amps you are using.

so if you guna run 4 bulbs, thats a potential 2.4 amps maybe more, so i wouldnt use the standard 3 amp fuse that are usually in things, go a little higher, or u risk the fuse blowing and that could mean death of ur babies if u dnt spot the fault in time.

hope it helps anyway.
good luck

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