pro's and cons of lighting

candylime12

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I found this thread very interesting.... and I am still torn between HID and CFL's...

I posted this in another thread....

When I used to do lighting/hydro many years ago.... I used HID lighting always... because simply.... it was strong and effective.. and CFL's were just nothing in comparison...

If I had another large setup.... I would do the same again...

But with my auto flower setup.... I want to use around 400W with the CFL's... but without the unreliability/spikes/warm ups of a ballast... and of course much less heat and everything that goes hand in hand with temperature and HID's.....

So with my reasoning.... could CFL be better than HID in my case?
I dont think so the amount of cfl's to make up the 400 watts can put off more heat then most people expect. I think youd be better off with the hid and save your self the headache of all the wiring/ money for the stuff to wire everything and put that money into ventalation.
 
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