Wow beautiful buds nice haul too!!
Damn Buddy Nice haul and another solid grow. I know I am late on this one but you did a great job. I am looking forward to more grows from you, keep up the good work man.Come check out my new grow if you havnt got a chance.Anomoly's Big Bud 800 Watt LED/CFL Grow
Hey all, I'm looking for input on 400 - 600watts of HID lighting... Electronic/Digital or Magnetic ballast? Dimmable or fixed? HSP, MH, Dual Arc or CMH?
Help!
Like I said before I am not a pro On HID's but I have learned something along the way.
Its all about your grow space, personal needs and expectations versus space limitation,budget, etc.. In my opinion electronically ballasted 600 watt HPS with an air cooled Hood is the best medium of all worlds. I am not sure that digital ballast are all that different or worth the extra money but I do think it is worth it to go from magnetic remote ballast to electronic. First with an electronic ballast is half the weight of a magnetic ballast. Secondly you don't have a huge electromagnet throwing out magnetic waves and other harmful shit. Thats why you see some photos of grow rooms and there are lines and interference in the picture, that is from magnetic ballasts. So although those waves generally don't travel more than 3 or 4 feet I would not want to take my chances if your grow room is near an area where people will be populating unless you want your kid to have three arms
Magnetic ballasts will be the cheapest since it is the oldest technology so there is one thing you can count on and thats reliability and proven technology with magnetic ballasts. I say a 600 watt as well because its not to small and its not to big, which means your power bill will not take as much of a hit as running a 1000watt but you will be able to grow comparable if not better buds. Secondly I think the heat given off by a 600 watt is manageable in even the smallest of grow rooms and can be effective in some of the biggest as well. If you are on a power crunch 600 watt systems gives you more options as far as adding additional light, fans, dehumidifiers, etc. That is mostly the reason I went with a 600 watt so I would have enough room to add my LED's as supplemental and have more ways of getting coverage and light onto the plants. Lastly the market really loves 600 watt just for the reasons I said so there are many options and accessories like MH conversion bulbs that they do not make for 1000 watt systems. For me this was the best option as buying two separate ballast for two different bulbs was not economical or feasible for me, and I wanted the benefit of HPS and MH I did not want to grow with one spectrum the whole time. So I got a 600 watt HPS ballast and got a MH conversion bulb that would fit my HPS system and I think thats the best purchase I ever made. hope this helps a little.
...So I got a 600 watt HPS ballast and got a MH conversion bulb that would fit my HPS system and I think thats the best purchase I ever made. hope this helps a little.
Hey endive! This was a great grow and I'm looking forward to your next one. Don't be a stranger in the meantime
Endive, you and all the other hydroponicshut led growers are my heroes <3
(very nice LED buds I was extremely impressed) .
I got my pg180 light a month back, it rocks. Cant wait to see your new grow,
gonna have HID and LED working together eh? Sounds good to me!
I also purchased a HID (250w digital mh/hps switchable), mostly to shut up all the smack talking LED haters but I actually have a decent size closet (I could use another pg180 and I'm good as far as lights go).
), are liking the Pro-Grow LEDs. 
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Mr Krip" Shhhhhhhhhh. I was going to try to talk him out of those 'worthless' hermie seeds.
