Amphora420
New Member
first time grower ... using cfls .. so i ordered a 250watt cfl .. bulb was huge .. so i ordered a apollo normal hood .. n it came with baars or whaterver plug .. after research so it looks like only a ballast which i was waiting on buying till i switched to mh/hps will fit this plug .. so now i need a ballast just to run these big cfls .. im assuming .. moneys really tight at the moment n dont really want to invest on a good one untill i can actually buy the light system i want so im looking at these cheap $60 ebay ones 400 watt .. since i only need 250 watts . question is i,ve seen 240 chords as something they sell like people need to buy them extra to get the ballast just to plug into a normal wall socket .. so #1 do i need to buy that extra cord or anything else to get the ballast to plug into a normal plug .. n #2 they all come dimable n i read something aout it a 140 /240 setting maybe that was the extra cord .. any how i guess the switch was for hps or mw which i will neither be running at this grow ... so what setting do i use for cfl / high watts 125-250 apollo bulbs........really a pain in the ass , i just wanted to order these lights n plug them in ... now im in the begining of flowering short a few hundred watts ... trying to order this cheap ballast asap......... thanks