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

Im running 36 smaller hydro plants and 10-20 soils in a/c, co2, and ventilation. Looking for alot of yield....

I don't know if anyone has ever tried something like that.

What sq footage are your plants taking up, or will they take when mature and what lights are you using now?

Trying a bunch of these for a grow like that would be paving new ground, but it sounds promising if the A/C you're running can keep up and the lights fit the square footage and all.

You'd have to rig up 10 batwing reflectors or something too.

8x8x10 shed, a/c, co2, and a total of 50 or so plants under 1500 watts of hps and fully wrapped in mylar with 2 6 inch inline fans... wanting to get 5+ pounds. Instead od 1 1k, why no spread the the arond 10 150 watt lights

Got 20 fem white rhine, 20 fem super silver haze, and 20 fem ppp. This is my first grow and have been buildeing the room for my first perfect grow, Thats why im looking at these lighst

bca21 said:

Im running 36 smaller hydro plants and 10-20 soils in a/c, co2, and ventilation. Looking for alot of yield....

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uh-oh is that a terminator... your lucky your all the way in texas

Yup, 04 terminator, ripped the stock eaton off and put a 2.2kb on 17 psi and lontubes... car runs hard but itts my daily driver. Nothing like gettin off work, rolling a dro blunt, and hauling azz home What do yoou meen im lucky by being in texsa?

OregonMeds said:

Yes, good plan.

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Thanks, neighbor! I'm at the central coast where the additional heat in the house would be welcome as long as it's properly dispersed.

How much of the heat comes from the ballast - as opposed to the bulb? Would this cooling system take care of heat from the ballast, too or, would you recommend separating the ballast to outside the grow chamber instead?

In one DIY cooltube tutorial, the creator had split the ducting and could have opened it up into a pre-attached bat-wing style reflector. Not sure if he left it that way or not but, it was inspiring.

Yes it gets cool on the coast, you probably don't even need a cooltube just a fan to circulate the air out of the grow space and to connect to a carbon filter of some sort.

With a cooltube you just have a batwing on top of it, you don't cut it or anything.

If you remote mount the ballast that just means less heat you have to evacuate from the grow, but it may not be worth the trouble in a cool climate. Percentage of heat? I don't know, maybe 30% of total heat comes from the ballast but that's just a guess.

I've been talking to myself in my journal (linked in my sig, c'mon over if ya want). My growspace is about 40"Wx24"Dx40"H - 3 insulated walls, a 1/2" plywood ceiling and a blackout curtain. Even with an exhaust/scrubber combo, using 6 x 23w CFL's 24/7 creates temps around 85F. Color me surprised that these things put out that kind of heat! Since I'm gonna have heat anyway, I might as well go for tight bud, too. So here's what I'm thinking. If I cooltoob this affordable light, my day/night temps will remain in tighter proximity resulting in mo' bigger bud. Thoughts?

Re: the batwing statement, it was one particular DIY cool tube plan that had the ducting split by snipping the ribs for the length of the glass and then cutting horizontally almost all the way through so he could slip in the glass tube and clamp it there. The remaining ducting looked like it could be spread into a bat wing-type reflector - already attached and at no additional cost, too. It appealed to me because I love K.I.S.S. and, fine, I'm cheep! LOL

ETA: wouldn't ya know it, the DIY cooltube tut to which I referred is on RUI! If that second pic down isn't a potential batwing reflector, I'll eat my hat.

Im going to get one of these....

bca21 said:

Yup, 04 terminator, ripped the stock eaton off and put a 2.2kb on 17 psi and lontubes... car runs hard but itts my daily driver. Nothing like gettin off work, rolling a dro blunt, and hauling azz home What do yoou meen im lucky by being in texsa?

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we'd be a good race

bump.

sorry tried linking to someone but thread is dead. so i've resorted to bumping

Deal is dead, any other good complete HPS deals?

HTG if you want a magnetic ballast kit or HIDHUT if you want a digital ballast kit.

Not dead, still works for me.

Mine arrived today. I promptly took it apart with the intent to keep the ballast out of the growbox and now have no idea what to do with all the parts.

This diagram is from a different 150 HPS that had a sensor integrated. Does the lower half apply here?

Just bought two of these. Thanks orgeonmeds!

What's the question, I'll try to help, I see the diagram, I'll start reading backwards

The price is right , but it's going to give off tons more heat than an 150 watt ecogrow CFL which goes for about 20$ more with ballast and is good to go into n.american sockets.

la9 said:

What's the question, I'll try to help, I see the diagram, I'll start reading backwards

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Thank you la9. I kyped a couple of photos from icmag and posted them in my journal (not to highjack this thread but, you're welcome to chime in). It's probably not as difficult as it is intimidating, right?