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so just had a chat with a sparkie suppliers, and was wondering, why do you need a seperate ballast, theres is one unit, light fitting bulb refector and hood?
 
ae86 grower said:
so just had a chat with a sparkie suppliers, and was wondering, why do you need a seperate ballast, theres is one unit, light fitting bulb refector and hood?
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You don't really need all seperates as such... My first grow lamp was a security light... I also bought a second one for about €80...

Nice cheap easy way of getting growing....!

I eventually upgraded to digital ballast as the security lights were magnetic and also mh and hps were NOT interchangeable
 
anybody see the fella in the hearld today remanded in custody for 1week for 9 plants even though the police said it was for personal use. they valued it at 4000, he'l probly do a day r two still locked up for 9 plants
 
Jay_normous said:
You don't really need all seperates as such... My first grow lamp was a security light... I also bought a second one for about €80...

Nice cheap easy way of getting growing....!

I eventually upgraded to digital ballast as the security lights were magnetic and also mh and hps were NOT interchangeable
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so the light he was on about was a security light then probably....

haven`t settled on one yet still exploreing my options, and as i`ll be vegging under cfl`s for next two weeks gives me a little wiggle room to leave it for a while and get as much as i can in, inline fan hood fan etc
 
toker! said:
anybody see the fella in the hearld today remanded in custody for 1week for 9 plants even though the police said it was for personal use. they valued it at 4000, he'l probly do a day r two still locked up for 9 plants
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must have been some grow, but then again they have mad value on stuff anyways, like its all street value and shit..
 
ae86 grower said:
so just had a chat with a sparkie suppliers, and was wondering, why do you need a seperate ballast, theres is one unit, light fitting bulb refector and hood?
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The purpose of a remote ballast is to keep the ballast out of the grow tent/room or up on the wall away from the plants where it can be hung. Most ballasts (even digital ones) heat up a shitload, and we try so hard to cool our grow spaces. I like to keep my ballasts outside my tents with my extractor fans blowing on them.

Plus those fixtures are pretty big and heavy, imagine it fell and annihilated your plants? I dropped one of my cooltubes one day, was rough!
 
theres was alot more expensive than get up and grow, with the lot (light reflector ballast and hood) comeing in at a whopping 430euro
 
ae86 grower said:
theres was alot more expensive than get up and grow, with the lot (light reflector ballast and hood) comeing in at a whopping 430euro
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Fuck that! It's like €120 for a 600w package at Bloomandgrow.ie! Add a €45 cooltube and hook it up to your existing exhaust and you've pretty much your lighting sorted. Should you choose to expand you can just add another 600w, cos they're the most energy efficient lamps.
 
Harrekin said:
Fuck that! It's like €120 for a 600w package at Bloomandgrow.ie! Add a €45 cooltube and hook it up to your existing exhaust and you've pretty much your lighting sorted. Should you choose to expand you can just add another 600w, cos they're the most energy efficient lamps.
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safe to use credit card on that site? dont want my statement to say hydro store or sum shit, i doubt the cops would have that little to do that they would try and trace somebody spending under 100 euro i just need a 125 watt cfl for seedlings
 
yeah taught it was a little on the expensive side, had searched back there har to links you put up and priced stuff from there, can`t be trusted with a credit card i`d have my own ship comeing with parts from japan if i had another one.....
 
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