Grow Room Set-Up

james24

Member
Guys a little input.

My grow room is 6x4 maybe 6x5 if I remove a built in shelf, what kind of light set would you all recommend?

-Would 2 400w lights be good or should I go 2 600w.

-I already have a 190 CFM inline fan and carbon filter should I get another fan. What would be a good CFM total.

-Lastly, can you all recommend a good light kit/brand at a reasonable price? I do not want to go through the problem of another ballast crapping out on me. This is actually the 2nd time it has happened
 

fir3dragon

Well-Known Member
If you can control heat get the 600w. If the 190 cfm is a proper inline and not a booster fan it will work for smell. I would get minimum 6 inch for the lights. I wouldn't get a light kit. Just buy the items separately

Good brands of ballasts are lumatek, hydrofarm phantom, soils tek.

Good bulbs are lumatek, digilux, hortilux and ushio.

Reflectors are up to you. I use the hydrofarm active air 6 inch without problems. Also have a 6 inch ventech that works well too.
 

Kurt Cobain

New Member
Hey! do you have cooltube for the light or not? It's worth the price man I tell you! I got a 400w cooltube in a 2x2x5 tent with a 190 cfm inline exhaust + 2 6 inch fan and i kept the temperature at 28c at 6 inch from the light. I'ts 25c at the bottom of the tent. I think you can have 2x 600w if it's cooltube and a good exhaust system ( for the tube and for the room ). But i think you should take a little bit powerfull exhaust fan, like 250cfm, maybe!

I had a 400w lumatek SL digital ballast and it passed away after 8 month of usage for unknown reasons ( As the clerk tell me, maybe it's the super lumen switch that burned the device). I get lucky cause the shop where i buy it change it for free. Now I have a 400w Powe Sun not SL but very good ballast!

I use a 400w Philips MH and a 400w Ushio HPS bulb and they worth the price. Probably they add it in 600w format.

Peace
 
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