Skip the CFL's: The $20 150w complete HPS with ballast and bulb Link

http://www.e-conolight.com/Product/EProductDetail.asp?ProductFamilyID=7&FGNumber=E-MT6H151G

Open the link twice to get to the right page.

People keep asking me for it... Figured I'd start YET ANOTHER THREAD on it.

Reps or props should go to the original poster, but I don't recall who that is.

All you need to hook this up is a cord with a plug in end on it, and you connect green to green, white to white, and black to black. Some wire nuts are in order. You can use a computer power cord or extension cord or cut a cord off whatever as long as it's 3 prong with ground. You can also modify these for remote ballasts or use horizontal or make your own hood or whatever.

Would this get hotter then 6 cfls?

The heat is equal to around 200w of incandescent or around 200 REAL watts of cfl. (but it puts out WAY WAY more lumens than either)

Any idea of the K rating of those bulbs? All it lists is the CRI and I'm not familiar with "color rendition index" . . .

you think it's worth a shot to grow with

Worth a shot to grow with? Absolutely. HPS is the best light you can get, granted this is not big but that means it's more suited to a small grow. What would take 6 42w cfl's can be done with this, but better. If you want to grow bigger, use a couple of them. At some point though it makes sense to just buy a bigger light, like if you want equal to a 400. If you want 2 or 3 though you can easily match a 250w hps with 2 or use 3 to cover more ground. This puts out more lumens than the largest available cfl's like the supposed 250w or whatever. Compare the lumens on this to what you might get with other lights at this kind of price and you'll see it's hard to beat for small grows.

No I don't know specifics on the lamp. They're less than $10 to replace though and whatever comes with this is good enough to use for two grows until it's past it's prime and then you can pick a specific lamp with a specific kelvin rating if you choose.

So I could put this in a 50 gallon grow box with proper ventilation?

Yep

Don't put it anywhere near plastic though, don't use this in a rubbermaid container or plastic garbage can. Be safe... Sure it might be fine with the fan going in a plastic container but what would happen if the fan failed?

ruins my idea lol
I was indeed using a plastic container

Well if you want to grow better than what the cfl's will do in your container now then you'll just have to switch to using a cabinet or speaker box or something else made of wood or metal.

The difference in growth is worth it, just a matter of whether you feel you're happy with the yield you get now or not, or if you want more efficiency to conserve power. If you run three 42w cfl's you are burning the same power as this but getting much less than half the light. Compare the lumens this is 15,000.
The heat output is similar but with the hps the heat is concentrated that's why I say maybe not so good for plastic.

There are plastic closets and stuff by rubbermaid etc that are so tall that the light would never need to get near the plastic, that would be ok probably.

Maybe I should just build a box out of some wood. That'd be easiest.

damn thats good money need to get a couple see how much I can get off em.

Thanks for that link

Enjoy...

They also have 400's for under $80 complete, you'll have to search for those though. (I mean if you want to go that big, better deal than buying four little guys and more efficient power wise)

oh i'll proly just keep one and sell sell the rest. thinking $45 a pop.

More like $35 to resell I think, but who knows... You talking craigslist or ebay? Ebay probably has a bunch of these already, just compare to what they are getting I guess.

naw here back home.

could you use this for veg too? or would it only be good for flowering?

is there some kind of wireing you have to do when you buy one of them? and is that bulb good for growing?...if so thats sick..and if so yes u can vegi too...

HPS is HPS theres no special kind of HPS for growing unless you talking about the Argo-son bulbs

I explained the wiring in the first post.

What's sick is the amount of bud you could reap from a $20 light.