why overboard? I have my plant lit up like a christmas tree haha she's doing well. Most of the bulbs I already had from a few years ago, and i added a couple more. They plan to legalize here next spring so then I'll have all of those for a veg room now. I hope it all goes through!
I did the lumen calculations and i will have just under double the amount of lumen output with the hps. woo!
No it wouldn't. The bulbs are rated for 400 watts of input, the ballast draws a bit more to start the bulb untill it hits operating range, the ballast also uses electricity for its own operation. A 400w ballast + bulb probably draws around 415-440 watts during operating range depending on type and quality of ballast. Cfl's are simular, some cfls are rated at the bulb, some are rated at the ballast. Phillip cfl bulbs i believe are rated at the bulb so a 23w phillips cfl might draw 25 watts while a 23w economy bulb will draw 23w.
check out the room I just built.
once you hit the switch you fire the ballast for hps thats easy mh can be a bitch but booting the ballast is always about 10% of the total wattage
ah okay, thanks for the info man. I'm not too worried about it in the summer as I use next to no power at all during the warm months. Winter though, I have a bitch of a furnace that just sucks electricity like mad. Ah the joys of living in an old house. Maybe I'll have to start heating with wood during the winter haha
nice. I need to build a good clean room like that. Turned up some Better than ezra on your playlist too haha.try hid and led
