which DIGITAL bulb to buy?

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S33K

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As hotilux bulbs fail to work with the new digital ballasts (at least as far as last their full life time if your lucky to get it to work), im trying to decide which of these new digi bulbs to buy. Ushio claims to work with these new ballast but truely only three bulbs are made for these high frequencies, sunpulse, digilux, and lumateks new bulbs. now for this im looking for a flowering bulb so its between sunpulse 3k (which is a mh in flowering spectrum of 2.8 so its near orange/red with more blue) and digilux hps and lumateks hps.

its hard to find good tests on these bulbs, and to sort through all the people who just claim one is better than another, so im hoping someone with knowledge in these new light will chime in.. Im already decided on the phantom 1000w ballast, just wont buy it till i decide on a bulb to go with it, so any help would be appreciated
 
sfsurfer

sfsurfer

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Im currently using the sunpulse 3000k rated MH and would definitely recomend it. I find it runs much cooler than the HPS and I like that its a little higher on the kelvin scale (HPS is rated at 2200K when plants need much closer to 3000k). Whats strange but nice is there seems to be much less stretching when using the sunpulse and much denser internode spacing. In my current grow (using LST) I have 15+ colas on each plant that look like they'll finish 8 inches long and fat! Go with the sunpulse especially if you have a digital ballast you wont regret it.
 
RawBudzski

RawBudzski

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I use MH conversion Horilux and a HPS on SUPER LUMENS. NEVER Burnt out.. on 2nd grow.
S33K said:
As hotilux bulbs fail to work with the new digital ballasts (at least as far as last their full life time if your lucky to get it to work), im trying to decide which of these new digi bulbs to buy. Ushio claims to work with these new ballast but truely only three bulbs are made for these high frequencies, sunpulse, digilux, and lumateks new bulbs. now for this im looking for a flowering bulb so its between sunpulse 3k (which is a mh in flowering spectrum of 2.8 so its near orange/red with more blue) and digilux hps and lumateks hps.

its hard to find good tests on these bulbs, and to sort through all the people who just claim one is better than another, so im hoping someone with knowledge in these new light will chime in.. Im already decided on the phantom 1000w ballast, just wont buy it till i decide on a bulb to go with it, so any help would be appreciated
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