priceless advice.get the air cooled..go sell lemonaid or something
its best to get wat you need the first time when it comes to this hobby,or it will get expensive and cluttered REALLY quick..
also,i bought a 12 tube t5 fixture with bulbs for 170 on ebay,6 switches,turns off 2 tubes at a time,worked WONDERFULLY as an addition to my veg room,im sure it would work just as well for you,space considered of course.[/QUOTE
Haha damn rory you got down with the lighting recommendationsI seen where you mentioned the that the aircooled was just 20 more and thats whats im going to go with
cool thing is with a 600, is that you can always add another 600 when you get to a bigger room. I recommend the 4" vortex for that setup, it's pricey, but I've NEVER had any problems with mine, and I have had them over a decade, with thousands of hours of usage, plus they are low ampage.
After doing a little bit of math and figureing out my square footage I dicided to go with a 400 for now,I'm only working with 5 square feet (rounded down) so even with the 400 im looking at around 6500 lumens psf for veg and 11,000 for flower,if I were to go with the 600 I feel like I'd have alot of trouble with ventilation unless I had an extra $150-$200 for inline fans and ducting.I will say that I'd MUCH rather get the 600 watt.do you think it would be more efficien if I get the 600 watt and just run it at 50 percent or 75 percent with the dimmable ballast untill I can upgrade my ventilation?
From what I understand, 600w hps are the most energy efficient of all of the hps'. I'd recommend that because as you said, you can lower the power, and if you can want to really push extra light at some point, or add more plants, or space, then you already have the equipment.
So that being said could a 600 watt in a 27 cubic foot room be effectively cooled if I just cut a 6" hole for a 6" 240cfm booster fan in the top back corner of the box for exhaust,and put an 8" hole in the bottom corner as a passive intake? I keep my bedroom relatively cold with a window ac unit,even on a hot day with the ac on it's around °60 ferinhiet
Do they have a website I can look at? Or can I just search the company name and find a link for Amazon or eBay?
21"in length 36" in width 60" in height like Ive said it seems like it is an EXTREMELY small space for a 600 watt,but id much rather buy the 600 watt than the 400
I had every intention of upgrading to a good quality inline fan and a real deal grow tent as soon as it is possible,but this is a hobby that was unexpectedly more costly to get started than I would've hoped but you get what you pay for
Whats up man I was going through some stuff i had stored at my dads house and I came across an old fan type thing,I don't know what they're actually called but I know it looks like a bigger version of the fans they use to blow up a kids moon bouncer or slide.I know it displaces alot of air and I was thinking I might be able to use it as an intake fan on a speed control.do you happen to know anything about these fans?
