High wattage Fluorescent bulbs?

Ok, so I was wondering do Fluorescent lights that are over 100 Watts require ballasts to run like HID's?

all flourecents require a ballast....except for cfls

cfls require a ballast, what do you think that white half-globe like thing is where the tubes come out? its self ballasted.

I'm pretty sure the 150w-200w requires a ballast. Everything is self-ballested if its compact-flouro

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ im sorry, i meant DOES NOT require a ballast.

Igotdialup said:

cfls require a ballast, what do you think that white half-globe like thing is where the tubes come out? its self ballasted.

I'm pretty sure the 150w-200w requires a ballast. Everything is self-ballested if its compact-flouro

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im pretty sure he meant a seperate ballast........

my bad.. my very bad... im tired and didnt mean to put that, one simple word left out ruins it :C

once again, to clarify... DOES not... require because it is all self ballested.. i think im confusing myself lol

uhh so... 125 watt Floro's require a ballast and no I don't mean Compact Floro's... uh this was what I was thinking about getting http://www.hydrofarm.com/pb_detail.php?itemid=116

no, i confused myself after i posted... it doesnt require a ballast, as i said.. do you see the halfglobe like thing where the tubes connect and it leads down into the socket? thats the ballast.. it is self-ballest

if you order that, just make sure you get the right spectrum... daylight for veg, warm for flower.

Heh, ok thanks for the info