Advantage V. disadvantage CFL's

I have 4 or 5 computers running in my house at any given time, and 2 air conditioners that run now and then. I'm very surprised, but my last electric bill was around $90. right now, about 300 watts of cfl power being used in the grow room. half on 12/12 and the other half on 18/6. I haven't noticed any change at all in the electric bill. I don't expect much change when I get a 600 watt hps either.

Our power bills are significantly higher, and include drawing water from a well that's close to 800' deep.

lastfrontier said:

i cant believe you actually reported it yea it was a bit vulgar it was in response to plantsman comment 220 he was insulting me because i was skeptic so that was the reply owed to him he had no reason to insult me he was just being an ass for no reason so what ever i cant believe a discussion about light intensity got so heated.

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So call someone an ass, a fuckwad, or say something meaningful - like they can't spell or formulate proper sentences. I don't give a shit about that crap. When you resort to using such foul and bigotous language, yes, I will report it. It is totally unacceptable and repugnant. The fact that you don't realize it is even more offensive.

lastfrontier said:

OK i am sorry you feel that way that guy called me names first but i dident hear you bitch about how repugnant that was so what ever bla bla bla bla bla bla bla............this is not what this thread is about.

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so... I like to eat babies and pot. anyone else use black cfl lights?

CFL's are awsome and the hood i have has a great reflector it really bounces the light back the guy i got it from used to have a video on the net but not sure if it is still on the server. the 1000bulbs.com did not work for you thats funny http://www.1000bulbs.com/ it works for me mabey the server was getting up dated try this link.

i give free windows advise the tools you will need are a hammer and a rifle and a lighter.

lastfrontier said:

i give free windows advise the tools you will need are a hammer and a rifle and a lighter.

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I love linux to death! but.. think about it.. all the numb skulls out there using windows.. think about the damage they could do to a more powerful system like linux. 90% of them would be surfing myspace under the root account. maybe start a thread for this.. "what damage could the average person do to a linux box"

lastfrontier said:

CFL's are awsome and the hood i have has a great reflector it really bounces the light back

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ooh, the new hood I made last night.. I go in the grow room and take care of some easy maintanence then leave the room. I see more spots now then ever. worse then looking straight into a blue led. it makes me go half blind with only about 100 watts of power usage, but nope, cfl's aren't intense enough for growing. must be an illusion or something.

lastfrontier said:

i give free windows advise the tools you will need are a hammer and a rifle and a lighter.

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When I'm working on one of my Windows platforms and am in need of help I'll keep that in mind.

lastfrontier said:

CFL's are awsome and the hood i have has a great reflector it really bounces the light back the guy i got it from used to have a video on the net but not sure if it is still on the server. the 1000bulbs.com did not work for you thats funny http://www.1000bulbs.com/ it works for me mabey the server was getting up dated try this link.

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Ah, that works now, thankee.

Hey, what about these lights? Look bright!
105 Watt Compact Fluorescent damn.

Seamaiden said:

Hey, what about these lights? Look bright!
105 Watt Compact Fluorescent damn.

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It's half the price to buy 4 26W CFL's from Wal-Mart with some Y connectors, and then cram them all together. Same lumens, and probably takes up the same amount of space if you do it right. And when one burns out, you don't lose 100% of your light.

42W are the sweet spot in terms of money, space, and power.

but if you're using them for clones, SM, go with the T5s or other straight bulbs. You don't need that much power and they'll be short.

lorenzo08 said:

I love linux to death! but.. think about it.. all the numb skulls out there using windows.. think about the damage they could do to a more powerful system like linux. 90% of them would be surfing myspace under the root account. maybe start a thread for this.. "what damage could the average person do to a linux box"

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wow that is a really good point never thought of that. i destroyed my OS probably 10-15 times the first year i do promote linux and unix as the best OS out there in fact more units of linux were shipped last year then windows with mac OS as the number one OS it is crazy to here another person who knows linux they are far and few between linux is unstoppable i run 4 screens and two quad core extreme processors LINUX RULES.....

lastfrontier said:

wow that is a really good point never thought of that. i destroyed my OS probably 10-15 times the first year i do promote linux and unix as the best OS out there in fact more units of linux were shipped last year then windows with mac OS as the number one OS it is crazy to here another person who knows linux they are far and few between linux is unstoppable i run 4 screens and two quad core extreme processors LINUX RULES.....

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you're awesome, man.

ceestyle said:

42W are the sweet spot in terms of money, space, and power.

but if you're using them for clones, SM, go with the T5s or other straight bulbs. You don't need that much power and they'll be short.

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For getting those taken from flowering girls to re-veg, too? Thanks, btw.

And thanks, too, to lf for the link. My husband spent a long time going through their product line last night, and he's figuring we can save over 65% on our lighting draw by switching our bulbs. That's a LOT of watts. Watts that I can use to grow. So, thank you.

boiStone said:

It's half the price to buy 4 26W CFL's from Wal-Mart with some Y connectors, and then cram them all together. Same lumens, and probably takes up the same amount of space if you do it right. And when one burns out, you don't lose 100% of your light.

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You know, I advise something very similar when it comes to heating aquariums (especially those full of expensive fish and corals, or lifelong pets). Divide the load, divide the powah. Good point. I have a bunch of bulbs on hand, those are going to start going into fixtures around the house as they're all 2700K.

dam why is everyone on here acting like their menstruating? lol to each his own. I give a thumbs up to anyone that has the balls, skills and patience to grow their own.

I don't think that CFL's are good only for small grows.. Mine is 12x6 and i've got 18 plants now, with another 12 going in tonight in a modified SOG. As to yield,6 plants..9.5 oz..another plant1.25 lbs..All under CFL. As for temp, even with the CFL's..I'm running 27 150w 2700K bulbs and my temp is from75 at the floor to 95 at ceiling, so unless those Hp are outdoors or in a large room how does it stay so cool? The largest area of savings is in the elecric bill, mine only went up 15 bucks after I switched the entire house to cfl's. No way could I run 4000 watts of HP or MH..Oh yeah..those weights are of Sativa, which does not yeild as much per plant as Indica. As important as the lghts are, the feed plays a huge part in yeild as well.

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