Best light for inside tent...

cottee

cottee

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SmokeyMcChokey said:
I start all mine with a 23 watt cfl in daylight Hite until they are about a week old. I then transfer directly to a 1k metal halide that's like a couple feet above it. Never had a light stress issue...
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Was talking about HPS. He said he had HPS and had been using that. I start mine on 400W MH.
 
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Tim1987

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MichiganMedGrower said:
You need a faraday cage to eliminate the interference. Clips won’t do it.
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I might have worded it wrong sorry man. The clips i bougt work though.
I can listen to radio national, no problem now.
SmokeyMcChokey said:
I start all mine with a 23 watt cfl in daylight Hite until they are about a week old. I then transfer directly to a 1k metal halide that's like a couple feet above it. Never had a light stress issue...
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I have a dimmer as well. The only reason i went a digital over magnetic. In the first place. Im pretty sure dimmers are standard for digital now?
I probably only use the dimmer on 400, for 2 or 3 weeks. Then they cop it all.
 
MichiganMedGrower

MichiganMedGrower

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Tim1987 said:
I might have worded it wrong sorry man. The clips i bougt work though.
I can listen to radio national, no problem now.

I have a dimmer as well. The only reason i went a digital over magnetic. In the first place. Im pretty sure dimmers are standard for digital now?
I probably only use the dimmer on 400, for 2 or 3 weeks. Then they cop it all.
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The clips may help your reception but not the neighbors. I never had this problem but my old caregiver switched to magnetic ballasts after Comcast kept coming back for neighbor cable issues.

I don’t have personal experience with the problem but I did by the Galaxy ballasts to avoid it.
 
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Tim1987

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MichiganMedGrower said:
The clips may help your reception but not the neighbors. I never had this problem but my old caregiver switched to magnetic ballasts after Comcast kept coming back for neighbor cable issues.

I don’t have personal experience with the problem but I did by the Galaxy ballasts to avoid it.
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Thanks med. That info's handy to know.
I took a drive around the block with am on, to be sure. I was paranoid af.
As you can imagine :lol::lol:
Im gonna bare that rule of yours in mind.
Fantastic info dude. Thank you.
 
fatty pneumonia

fatty pneumonia

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Johnny Lawrence said:
https://growershouse.com/revolution-ballast-emi-filter-reduce-rf-emi

https://growershouse.com/nanolux-rf-filter-set-reduce-rf-interference
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I have one of the nanolux rf filter sets. The only thing it did for me was prevent the ballast from firing the bulb.
I'm using a Gavita Digistar ballast paired up with a El1 controller, Super Sun 2 reflector and Hortilux 1000 watt super HPS.

1st time I fired everything up went fine. Only thing I noticed was that the output filter seemed to run very warm- almost hot.
The 2nd time I made sure I was in the room when the light was scheduled to come on. Nothing- Ballast didn't fire the bulb-
the led indicator on the ballast had a fault code. I unplugged the ballast from the wall-waited 30 min. and tried again. Same thing happened.
Then I plugged all the connections straight in w/OUT the filter set. Lit right up. A couple of days later I tried plugging the Rf filter set back
in to see what would happen. Bulb wouldn't fire up. Filter is now sitting on a shelf in my closet and probably get thrown away sometime in
the future.
 
SmokeyMcChokey

SmokeyMcChokey

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cottee said:
Was talking about HPS. He said he had HPS and had been using that. I start mine on 400W MH.
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Any of these cheap digital kits run either lamp and most come with one of each. Depending on what I have in the room I often veg seedlings under hps. The point I was getting at was start the light far away but there is no reason to dim the lamp.
The op was asking which light to buy. Therefore isn't using hps lights for anything as all he has is a tent...
 
cottee

cottee

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SmokeyMcChokey said:
Any of these cheap digital kits run either lamp and most come with one of each. Depending on what I have in the room I often veg seedlings under hps. The point I was getting at was start the light far away but there is no reason to dim the lamp.
The op was asking which light to buy. Therefore isn't using hps lights for anything as all he has is a tent...
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I thought he’d said he had a HPS. Maybe I read it wrong. Can’t be arsed to go back through the pages and check so il take your word for it lol

Yea I get your point mate and I’m not saying that your wrong. I sometimes start them under 600 MH in the winter as my veg area is not in a tent so it heats the room up when it’s cold. . My veg area is next to 2 flowering tents so when the flowering tents are in the night cycle it keeps the room warm.

In summertime though the room gets fucking hot and I try to keep the MH at 400 as long as possible to try to keep the temps down a little. Also your going to save a little on electric by dimming them and moving the shade closer if money’s a problem.

I dim or do not dim at the start depending how the temperature of my room. I prefer MH to HPS in veg as my plants seem to react better to but your not wrong in what your saying each to there own.
 
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Z3r0Z3r0

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Ill be doing a tent grow smaller then that in future when in legal territory, check out COB leds they are newest tech, might even be able to build your own for 4x4 id say at least 900W rated LED with around real 500 power draw
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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Peaceful Smoker Of Weed said:
Sounds like there's a lot of different options. I will try and do some researching. I just was curious what people in the growing community were using.
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I'm in a 4 x 4. I use a 600 w MH/HPS. The bulbs run off the same ballast. Just replace the bulbs every year or two depending on use. MH is for Veg and HPS is for Flower. If you do a nice canopy then you can pull a pound of dry flower pretty comfortably.
 
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