Opinions On Bulbs

Like nongreenthumb said i am done as well! Just one short comment, sorry. Your "Length of the power cord is engineered for the ballast" bullshit comment still has no proof behind. "Just call them blah blah blah." Of course they are gonna tell you that because unless they go there and physicaly wire up your light they have no way of telling that the person installing it really knows the size wire they are feeding it with. Do you realize that there may be a switch leg feeding a light from power that is 50 or more feet away and you will never have an issue if you size the wire correctly. And I'm not talking about some 50' upsizing rule or some 14AWG on a 15A breaker code horseshit!!!! I'm talking about wire attenuation (spelling?) over a certain length shit!! Whether the wire be an inch or 100' long, the wire has a certain resistance that will only allow a certain amount of current through it (Ohm's Law homie). And as far as the 14AWG on a 15A breaker, once again code shit. 14AWG is only recommended by code to be terminated on a 15Amp breaker because of temp variations and other variables that the wire can be exposed to. 14AWG wire CAN handle more than 15Amps prick. Now that's getting technical, which sounds like what you are trying to do. I'm a little baked, so I forgot where I was going with all this. Oh yeah. So what does the code book technicalities have to do with the functuality of electronics?? NOTHING! Just protection for a broad range of installations in different enviroments. Anyways, that was a little long!

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Like nongreenthumb said i am done as well! Just one short comment, sorry. Your "Length of the power cord is engineered for the ballast" bullshit comment still has no proof behind. "Just call them blah blah blah." Of course they are gonna tell you that because unless they go there and physicaly wire up your light they have no way of telling that the person installing it really knows the size wire they are feeding it with. Do you realize that there may be a switch leg feeding a light from power that is 50 or more feet away and you will never have an issue if you size the wire correctly. And I'm not talking about some 50' upsizing rule or some 14AWG on a 15A breaker code horseshit!!!! I'm talking about wire attenuation (spelling?) over a certain length shit!! Whether the wire be an inch or 100' long, the wire has a certain resistance that will only allow a certain amount of current through it (Ohm's Law homie). And as far as the 14AWG on a 15A breaker, once again code shit. 14AWG is only recommended by code to be terminated on a 15Amp breaker because of temp variations and other variables that the wire can be exposed to. 14AWG wire CAN handle more than 15Amps prick. Now that's getting technical, which sounds like what you are trying to do. I'm a little baked, so I forgot where I was going with all this. Oh yeah. So what does the code book technicalities have to do with the functuality of electronics?? NOTHING! Just protection for a broad range of installations in different enviroments. Anyways, that was a little long!

PEACE

If connecting an extension cord of the same gauge wire as used in wiring the sockets in my home was to affect the operation of the ballast then it follows that the ballast would work differently as I plugged into different sockets around the house as some would be further away from the fuse box, its the same thing, there is no difference - all an extension cord does is extend the main circuit, yes?

Chinga_2_Madre said:

Do yourself a favor and give your CFL's to the next sucker and step up to MH and HPS lighting.

You deserve the best weed and not ditch weed.

Losers use CFL's.

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lots of people have good accomplished grows using cfls if they know how to do them. I use them and stand beside them all the way from seed to flower they work fine if you do it right and designed your setup well.
Does anyone else notice that Chinga_2_Madre always has something negitave to say on every post that he makes? I guess he hasnt seen major tokes plants either...........
i like cfls because you dont need seperate ballast and I can wire them straight to a 110 volt plug.

i am running a hortilux eye 250 mh and it rocks and a planatar 600 hps which is insane, that is the bulb that gives hortilux a run for the money