...yeah man, that bulb is gonna need a ballast which is almost certainly built into the fixture that bulb is meant for, ...what you'd have to do is buy one of those fixtures and either use it as it is out of the box or you'd have to dismantle it so you could extend the cord between the ballast components and the socket the bulb actually screws into, ...this enables you to remote the ballast and the heat it generates outside your growspace.
Really! You should read up on intensity and penatration because come on now... comparing hids to cfl's? CFL'S are great for growing but when compared to HID's, they really fall short.
...as someone who has run both i'd suggest to you that you'd be losing out if you took that direction as HPS will always beat CFL, watt for watt.
And a 600 watt bulb.
bwhahahahaahaha.....
And staticially I can prove you a MORON also...(which you prolly aren't)... but that prooves my point. Math...like staticis can show many different outcomes, just depends who's doin the thinkin.
its all relative to perspective, i have to agree
150watts of HPS will outperform 150watts of CFL all day long, despite whatever 'research' you think you've done, or how loud you giggle, ...and i speak from experience because i grew under nothing but CFLs for nearly 2 years before i upgraded to HPS and i've been growing now under HPS for more than double that time, ...believe me, if CFLs had been better i'd have had no problem going back to them!
lol, here's another of Quazi's threads that seems to suggest he prefers HPS as well.
...no man, i disagree, a single watt of HPS light will always be more intense and therefore penetrate more deeply into a canopy than a single watt of CFL light.
you right.