Painting cfl bulbs red and blue
- Thread starter kenobi
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BobCajun
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Only if you like the smell of burnt paint. You have to buy the real ones. You could buy red filters but you'd just be wasting wattage on the filtered out parts. I've seen 23w red ones, but most are 13w. Costly though huh?
Painting your lamps or even buying colored bulbs is like wasting most of your wattage.
Instead try these lamps that output using targeted color phosphors:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B018PSHMYU (Mostly red with 10% blue)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YELLHP8 (Mostly blue)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TH3SECC (50% blue, 37% red, 13% green)
vostok
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I remember asking my mentor if I can do this ...he replied no!
the reason being is ..you take a 100w cfl paint it red
the red, tho being the correct kelvin, its effectiveness is reduced,
the volume of light that is to about 80-85w depending on how thick the paint is
I didn't do it, but wished I did
if you do ..post back ur results
good luck
BobCajun
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Your CFLs do look good at the sale price. Cheaper than similar wattage of regular colored CFLs. A 1:1 mix of FlowerPOWER and PowerBlue would be just right, about 30% blue. I didn't notice the spectrum pics in the listing before. Set up a 1:1 grow as I mentioned and show people how good it works.
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BobCajun
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Yeah but what if you don't want to pay the high price of LEDs? Nothing wrong with using colored CFLs, just that it needs to be actual colored phosphors not just paint.