Does this look like a good package?

[wehavegotajumper]

I'm looking at this as a first grow setup for a 2.2ftx4ftx5ft area.

I would like to ask you that have experience if this bulb, ballast, and cord are of good quality.

Thanks all

[wehavegotajumper]

forgot to add, i plan to use an xtrasun reflector w/ the 6" flanges. Will that fit with that bulb? THANKSSSSALLLLLLL

[PharmaCan]

You also forgot to post a link to the equipment in question.

PC :smokin:

[wehavegotajumper]

fuck i'm an idiot, sorry all.....here's the link

400 w HPS Digital Grow Light System for Indoor Growing! - (eBay item 250159049156 end time Oct-26-07 12:00:53 PDT) (http://cgi.ebay.com/400-w-HPS-Digital-Grow-Light-System-for-Indoor-Growing_W0QQitemZ250159049156QQihZ015QQcategoryZ42 225QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem)

THANKS ALL

[PharmaCan]

fuck i'm an idiot...

LOL - We all are at times. The trick is to keep it out of the public eye.

You should look at 600w and 750w lights and see if you can afford something a little bigger. You will be a lot happier with the results.

JMO

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[wehavegotajumper]

i would REALLY like to know if that ballast and bulb of good quality.

I'm set on using the 400 hps because I am not looking to up my power bill and i'm only going to be growing 3 plants total. SOOOOO. Good quality or not?

PharmaCAn,

I greatly appreciate your 2 cents ;) don't think i hate your anything....:rasta:

[rhizome]

Don't love the Lumatek ballasts- the digi boards run pretty damn cool anyway, why have a fan blow into the enclosure if yer not throwing heat? Just asking for shit to get blown in. Seal it up in a nice moisture-tight hunk of epoxy, and cool it with fins.

I guess that I don't like moving parts if I don't need 'em.

Anecdotal reports of trouble firing some halide bulbs- think that was more the K's, though.

Lot's of folks love em' though- certainly, except for my ( possibly irrational) thing about moving parts, a nice little ballast.

Hort 400hps/en is a great little bulb- industry standard.

Can't speak for the cordset- that could be anything.

Should point out that the pricing on that's not that great, once the stuff ships. You should see if a local supplier would be willing to match the sale price plus shipping- you might be able to just pick it up, as opposed to a bunch of differant companies having a shipping address on file.

[PharmaCan]

The Lumatek digi 400w costs $150, so you would be paying $100 for a cord, socket and bulb. That seems a little on the high side. I recently bought a 400 watt GroLux, which is probably a better bulb than the Hortilux, for $50.

I recently got a 1000w ballast, Hortilux Eye bulb, all cords AND a cool tube for $400. They had 400 watt packages too, I just don't remember the price for the 400's. I printed the info on the internet package deal, took it to my local hydro guy and he matched the price, before shipping.

Any hooo, I don't much care for Ebay. They want way too much to be part of my life instead of just a place I shop sometimes. Then, by the time you get done with the all-intrusive PayPal, they know way more about me than some stinkin' merchant needs to know.

PC :smokin:

[qdavid]

Man, I'm sure glad this wasn't a pic of some dudes package. I kinda like the looks of my own though.