Yeah I knew the ballast was kicking out some heat. After it being on all day i would touch where the ballast was and could barely hold my hand there for 3 seconds. I know the warm weather is not helping.

See I live in Texas and it gets very hot and humid in the summer. We keep our A/C set at 80 during the day time to help save electricity, and for the dogs. I am wondering how much heat would emit from one of those air cooled reflectors if any at all.

I am really liking the reflector with cool tube from Texas Hydroponiocs. It just seems it would cool alot easier.

Thanks for your input.

J