can these light b used 4 growin

does any one know anything about these lights and can they be used for growin?

these lights are usually found outside buildings and are used as floodlights to light up the fronts of the buildings.
ive found one at work and if it allrite im taking it.owt for nowt as we say in yorkshire.


Osram NAV-E Vialox High Pressure Sodium SON-E 70W
[SONE 70W]
70 Watt Internal Ignitor
5600 lumens


+rep for anyone who can help with some decent details

so long as it says high pressure sodium bulb, then you are good.. i don't know much about that bulb in particular.. but hps bulbs are great for flowering, and decent for vegetive growth, although some people will say that hps will cause some stretching during vegetive growth, they will do the job well..
i am not sure about the internal ignitor in them, but i would guess that this would mean that they is no need for an external ballast for the bulbs..
i wanna see if i can find anymore info online for them before i say the wrong things to you, but as far as using an hps for growing, your golden.. 70 watts is not all that much, but if you like three or four of them, you would be able to grow a couple plants under them no prob..
i will try and get back on this after i try to find some more details for you

just looked them up online, and it does say that it contains an integral bottle ignitor and does not reqiure an external ignitor, ballast, but like i said in my first post, don't know too much about these bulbs... just know that hps are good for growing, but i am not positive about this bulb in particular..
hope this helps some.. but i would wait to see what anyone with some more experience has to say about these bulbs.. they look interesting..

i think u scored. good luck and let us know

bud i just bought a hps set up secondhand and he thro in 1 of those lights he said it was good for veg so ive been using it the last 2 days and it was working a lot better then the cfl but it just stopped working there so i put on the orange hps im not sure but think he told me it was an mh blub anyway it is very bright and its very white/blue

yeh, well thats wat i fort, i actually use a 250w hps now for flowering myself, but wasnt sure bout this type of bulb,
i seen ppl using son-t bulbs but wasnt sure bout the son-e bulbs.
i have a MH and an HPS now but wen i saw this at work i fort why throw it in the skip, may aswell keep it may be able to use it on some young cuttings or something oneday.
im still researchin it myself so ill post wat i find,

thanks for the help man, +rep

anyone ever used one of these that would help loads

oh and ihave to use an external ballast for the bulb mines 400w

also iv been looking for them online when mine went bust i found them on ebay but it was under an hps! i posted the qs what is it yesterday 60 views and no ans hahaha

good luck bro

www.firstlightdirect.com/sitepage/Sodium_Light_Bulbs.html
i think this is the site where i found them at when i was looking for info.. it is right above your post on here in googles results, which i though was kinda funny. this site was saying that some of them did not have an itegral ignitor, and others did, and the one that you had listed did have one in it.. i think the larger watt ones need an external ballast to get them going, but i think i saw one that was like a 90 watter that had that integral bottle ignitor built into it..
sounds like a pretty kool bulb, and since you already have a 250hps, i am sure that this lil baby will help out alot..
good luck with your grow.. are you in the uk if you don't mind my asking? it had looked like some of the websites that were selling these bulbs were based in the uk.. i was just curious if these were mainly used in the uk or what the deal was with them..

well.. i just answered my own ?.. i looked at your post and saw that you do indeed live in the uk.. i am still cuirious though about how widely used these bulbs are outside of the uk.. you have 240 volt everything there, unlike the u.s, which uses the 120 volt for everything..

yeh uk, ii see these lights alot ova here they light up the fronts of pubs and things like that, well the light casings do anyway nt sure bout the bulbs they use in them.
the one i got was at work and it lite up the front car park area but not in use anymore so i put it to one side, fort i could use it.
thanks alot for ur help man, im guna stick a couple of seeds under it, see wat happens,
interesting bit on the link u put up that says they one of the most lumenous effiecient lights, up to 150 lumens per watt.

thanks again man, keep you informed on how it gos, this could have been a top find.

peace

it sounds it.. have you just tried it out yet? i was curious as to whether you just plug them into a regular socket and all like a normal incadescent bulb... i always knew that work was good for something... i nearly pissed myself when you said that you found it at work and it was being used to light up the car park, but not anymore.. i was thinking it wasn't anymore cuz it is now lighting up your babies.. or soon to be.. lol... i used to stea... err, borrow all kinds of good things from me old job.. don't know why they ever laid me off, ,lol...
let us know how it works out for ya.

haha,
yeh it can be pluged into the regular socket, its into the fuse board at work but i know enuf bout electronics to wire it into a socket.

errr mate, weve just moved to this factory and my dads the gaffer and weve rewired the whole place, so i have 9 of these lights and hopefully glad they can be used for growin,
so i have some for sale if anyone near me in yorkshire, england want one?

i havnt room to test them out yet but soon i will wen my present plants flower, ill let this thread know.
massive help, anymore info on light?

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