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Re: IGG Vertical 600w JD Lighting Digital Ballast Vs. Current 600w Digital Ballast
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IGG Vertical 600w JD Lightings Digital Ballast Vs. Current 600w Digital Ballast
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wow, makes me want to Smoke!
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IGrowGrass
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Re: IGG Vertical 600w JD Lighting Digital Ballast Vs. Current 600w Digital Ballast
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IGrowGrass
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Re: IGG Vertical 600w JD Lighting Digital Ballast Vs. Current 600w Digital Ballast
Well Been using New JD Lighting ballast since i got it.....even as i don't have everything i need to do a comparative side by side grow i must say..I like everything about it so far....It does run a lot hotter than one i have with fan in it....but having no fan I guess it would be hotter
Been running 110% setting for the past week straight and plants are digging it man 
Here is Cripit Ready to clone...
Well Been using New JD Lighting ballast since i got it.....even as i don't have everything i need to do a comparative side by side grow i must say..I like everything about it so far....It does run a lot hotter than one i have with fan in it....but having no fan I guess it would be hotter
Been running 110% setting for the past week straight and plants are digging it man Here is Cripit Ready to clone...
Greenhouse250
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Nice plant, she has some nice fat fingers. How hot is that ballast running? So hot you can't touch it? I don't know much about electronic ballast but the one thing I've read is that the ballasts with fans can fail, then your new ballast is fucked.
Nice plant, she has some nice fat fingers. How hot is that ballast running? So hot you can't touch it? I don't know much about electronic ballast but the one thing I've read is that the ballasts with fans can fail, then your new ballast is fucked.
Propa Gator
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Re: IGG Vertical 600w JD Lighting Digital Ballast Vs. Current 600w Digital Ballast
I was running two 600 Digital Greenhouse before, now one is my demo JDL.
Total heat is likely the same, but with no fan it runs a higher temperature.
The bulbs seem the same brightness unless I switch to 110%.
Growth counts, but I expect similar performance until one breaks. That's the question: reliability.
Maybe I'll get an answer in a few years.
"Nice plant, she has some nice fat fingers. How hot is that ballast running? So hot you can't touch it? I don't know much about electronic ballast but the one thing I've read is that the ballasts with fans can fail, then your new ballast is fucked."
Lumatek are sealed units, and are reliable. I can touch my JDL when hot, but not for long.
I've walked on hotter pavement in Texas, but not barefoot.
I was running two 600 Digital Greenhouse before, now one is my demo JDL.
Total heat is likely the same, but with no fan it runs a higher temperature.
The bulbs seem the same brightness unless I switch to 110%.
Growth counts, but I expect similar performance until one breaks. That's the question: reliability.
Maybe I'll get an answer in a few years.
"Nice plant, she has some nice fat fingers. How hot is that ballast running? So hot you can't touch it? I don't know much about electronic ballast but the one thing I've read is that the ballasts with fans can fail, then your new ballast is fucked."
Lumatek are sealed units, and are reliable. I can touch my JDL when hot, but not for long.
I've walked on hotter pavement in Texas, but not barefoot.
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Re: IGG Vertical 600w JD Lighting Digital Ballast Vs. Current 600w Digital Ballast
WhiteHouse Ya what he said 
Propa Gator congrats on test driving ballast
WhiteHouse Ya what he said Propa Gator congrats on test driving ballast
ilikebike
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Re: IGG Vertical 600w JD Lighting Digital Ballast Vs. Current 600w Digital Ballast
does the JD Lighting ballast run hotter than an old style magnetic core ballast?
does the JD Lighting ballast run hotter than an old style magnetic core ballast?
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IGrowGrass
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No ilikebike.... top of case runs about 120 degrees ....I like no moving parts....like WhiteHouse said moving parts = things that can go wrong.
Again it strikes me as being well built so something that should last..Like Propa Gator said time is only test to see reliability
No ilikebike.... top of case runs about 120 degrees ....I like no moving parts....like WhiteHouse said moving parts = things that can go wrong.
Again it strikes me as being well built so something that should last..Like Propa Gator said time is only test to see reliability
ilikebike
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Re: IGG Vertical 600w JD Lighting Digital Ballast Vs. Current 600w Digital Ballast
it just scares me when things get that hot, my magnetic core ballast runs at about 120*F if i dont place a fan infront of it too cool it off.
maybe ill just keep a desk fan blowing on the JD Ballast to keep it cool.
it just scares me when things get that hot, my magnetic core ballast runs at about 120*F if i dont place a fan infront of it too cool it off.
maybe ill just keep a desk fan blowing on the JD Ballast to keep it cool.
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Remote ballasts are good because one can locate them remotely.
They can be in a duct, where their heat can be moved away with a fan.
Separate air in from a window, past the ballasts and out again, is time tested.
Remote ballasts are good because one can locate them remotely.
They can be in a duct, where their heat can be moved away with a fan.
Separate air in from a window, past the ballasts and out again, is time tested.
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Re: IGG Vertical 600w JD Lighting Digital Ballast Vs. Current 600w Digital Ballast
Good idea with sticking them in duct work to cool Think mine will simply be re located outside flower room with magnetic ballast I have
Good idea with sticking them in duct work to cool
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OK the JD Lighting Ballast has become the work horse in my stable...I run her 24/7 now...By day it runs MH bulb at 110% then at night it has HPS at 110%
Tried running in flower room but getting too warm without AC so for now ballast is being tested in this way. I am moving plants and leaving light in second Veg /mother room.
So right now veg girls are enjoying light....then shortly girls(about 8 of them) will come out of flower room and go under light(hps) for 12
Vantage
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OK the JD Lighting Ballast has become the work horse in my stable...I run her 24/7 now...By day it runs MH bulb at 110% then at night it has HPS at 110%
Tried running in flower room but getting too warm without AC so for now ballast is being tested in this way. I am moving plants and leaving light in second Veg /mother room.
So right now veg girls are enjoying light....then shortly girls(about 8 of them) will come out of flower room and go under light(hps) for 12
Vantage
Cripit
Jack
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Effing + Reps my friend. Yours is a grow I'll watch, and remember, and probably look back to even when its over. It's easy to see how well you have your environment dialed in, much to learn here folks
Effing + Reps my friend. Yours is a grow I'll watch, and remember, and probably look back to even when its over. It's easy to see how well you have your environment dialed in, much to learn here folks
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Quixilvir appreciate the kind words my friend
Quixilvir appreciate the kind words my friend 
Re: IGG Vertical 600w JD Lighting Digital Ballast Vs. Current 600w Digital Ballast
Nice grow! +Reps brother!
Nice grow! +Reps brother!
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Ok Dude caught up on this. I noticed that Cripit isn't a producer unless ya give it acouple extra in the veg room. She is fast. I don't know if it wood make a good comparison grow unless maybe she'd make a big cola 'without' topping.
Alot of interesting things going on with vertical gardening. Utilizes space and energy to the max. Have you picked to clones for your test grow? Man you got alot going on rite now. I'm glad it's you not me. I seen alot of people use that white PVC sever pipe wyee's for vertical grows. Rock wool cubes shoved in the neck of the wyee stacked on another wyee and drains at the bottom. Drippers and a catch res on the bottom. Hey 15 years ago, I wood've tried building a panneled octagon room with a double cool tube running thru the middle. But now adays thats too much work. I'll tell ya this company has it going on for ideas.
OmegaGarden.com - Omega Garden Farmdominium - Vertical Farming
Well GL my friend I'll be looking in. Keepem Green
Ok Dude caught up on this. I noticed that Cripit isn't a producer unless ya give it acouple extra in the veg room. She is fast. I don't know if it wood make a good comparison grow unless maybe she'd make a big cola 'without' topping.
Alot of interesting things going on with vertical gardening. Utilizes space and energy to the max. Have you picked to clones for your test grow? Man you got alot going on rite now. I'm glad it's you not me. I seen alot of people use that white PVC sever pipe wyee's for vertical grows. Rock wool cubes shoved in the neck of the wyee stacked on another wyee and drains at the bottom. Drippers and a catch res on the bottom. Hey 15 years ago, I wood've tried building a panneled octagon room with a double cool tube running thru the middle. But now adays thats too much work. I'll tell ya this company has it going on for ideas.
OmegaGarden.com - Omega Garden Farmdominium - Vertical Farming
Well GL my friend I'll be looking in. Keepem Green
Re: IGG Vertical 600w JD Lighting Digital Ballast Vs. Current 600w Digital Ballast
wow i see some major grows in this forum
im just wondering from how i see stuff packed all over and not just on yours but how you actually can move around your plants to do stuff?
wow i see some major grows in this forum
im just wondering from how i see stuff packed all over and not just on yours but how you actually can move around your plants to do stuff?
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Re: IGG Vertical 600w JD Lighting Digital Ballast Vs. Current 600w Digital Ballast
Hey Wood bro....well when i do the side by side i will use whatever i have around for clones and will just keep same age and size plants for each circle...Cripit don't strike me as good vertical plant...better to train it and throw it under the 1000 watt on light mover I plan on keeping it simple whatever i do trust me I do have a lot going on but look at how beautiful they are
Cronichemphog Not sure about anyone else but it takes nothing to move a single plant to reach one in back...I never have a problem getting to any of them
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Hey Wood bro....well when i do the side by side i will use whatever i have around for clones and will just keep same age and size plants for each circle...Cripit don't strike me as good vertical plant...better to train it and throw it under the 1000 watt on light mover
I plan on keeping it simple whatever i do trust me I do have a lot going on but look at how beautiful they are Cronichemphog Not sure about anyone else but it takes nothing to move a single plant to reach one in back...I never have a problem getting to any of them
Blueberry
Cripit
AK-48
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