Well guys here is the new 400 watt setup. I didn't get many pics cause I'm pretty beat. I mounted the digital ballast on the outside of the back wall to the cab. That should keep temps down a little even though this ballast is staying cool as hell.
Here is a pic of the ballast attached on the back:
Here are pics of the inside of the cab. I added two other purple seedlings in there so there is three purple seedlings (one is in the diy ebb and flow the other two in green pots), one older purple female, and a church female. The church is the big one in the back and the bigger purple plant is in front of her.
All I need to do today is attach 6 inch ducting from the carbon filter to the cooltube and switch the lights back from 18/6 to 12/12. The temps are great right now without the c/f attached, 75°F at the top of the white pots and 79°F directly below the bulb which doesn't really matter because I have the bulb backed off quite a few inches.
Also, on the next feeding they will be fed this per gallon of water:
1 tablespoon Big Bloom
1.5 teaspoons of Tiger Bloom
0.5 teaspoon of Purple Maxx
and 1 teaspoon of Botanicare's Sweet Grape
The ppms came out to 463. I filter my 120 ppm tap water through a brita filter and that brings it down to 60 ppms so there is about 400 ppms of nutes in the water
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