Anyone use those mega sized HPS light fixture/reflector?
- Thread starter Colo MMJ
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TacoMac
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Do what I do:
Go to Walmart to the school supplies section. Buy the 3 panel display boards that are 36" x 48" for $1.99. Get as many as you need. Go over to Ebay or Amazon and order emergency space blankets. They measure 54" x 84" and come in various numbers. (One blanket will do two of the 36" x 48" boards.) I bought one that had 5 in it for 4 dollars. Use some spray adhesive to secure the mylar blankets to the boards.
Yahtzee! You now have solid mylar reflector panels 4 feel long, 3 feet high with adjustable panels for the grand total of $2.50 each at most. You can hang them, set them on the floor like walls to reflect for side lighting (which is what I do as I don't use a tent), anything you want. Dirt cheap.
And man, it's like you turned on another HPS when you get them set up.
Go to Walmart to the school supplies section. Buy the 3 panel display boards that are 36" x 48" for $1.99. Get as many as you need. Go over to Ebay or Amazon and order emergency space blankets. They measure 54" x 84" and come in various numbers. (One blanket will do two of the 36" x 48" boards.) I bought one that had 5 in it for 4 dollars. Use some spray adhesive to secure the mylar blankets to the boards.
Yahtzee! You now have solid mylar reflector panels 4 feel long, 3 feet high with adjustable panels for the grand total of $2.50 each at most. You can hang them, set them on the floor like walls to reflect for side lighting (which is what I do as I don't use a tent), anything you want. Dirt cheap.
And man, it's like you turned on another HPS when you get them set up.
DemonTrich
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I run 6x big kahuna hoods. Things are BIG and heavy. 3 in a 5x10 veg room, 3 in a 8x12 flower room
bigbluegoo
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I have a sunsystem Magnum xxxl in a 4x4 600w and it covers nicely
Colo MMJ
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The local grow store put up a display with all the light/reflectors they sell. Man those babies are huge.
Colo MMJ
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+100 Cool tip my man. Thanks.
I love how people on this thread can think outside the box and come up with really cool ideas especially low cost ones. Very clever.
TacoMac
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Thanks. I'm going to make a few more of them for my next grow so I can expand the actual fixture reflection. They really do work very well. I've ordered a 600 watt HPS, but presently I'm using my old 175 watt. When I dropped the two panels I made around the plants, it was like turning on 3 more lights. It was that much brighter.+100 Cool tip my man. Thanks.
I love how people on this thread can think outside the box and come up with really cool ideas especially low cost ones. Very clever.
They work very, very well.
DemonTrich
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I secure them.to my ceiling joists with 600# chain double chained for safety with 300# hooks. I'm overly paranoid about having my.hood fall on my girls.