Quote Originally Posted by cigarettes42
they both will work but by guessing your grow dimensions (closet?)your going to need an air cooled hood. batwing reflectors will heat it up without the assist of airconditioning or aircooled hood. also there is a bunch of crap sold on ebay. those that you listed hasn't told me if there is a warranty or not, i would be worried that 2 months later that the ballast crap out and your stuck with a paper weight. also hightechgarden supply on ebay is crap too. its chinese junk that you will end up buying better quality stuff later. i bought a hood from them and 2 years the inside discolored. with that space i would get two 250watt aircooled lights!
I am actually going to build a cabinet in my basement (I think we are the only house in California with a basement, so I am going to utilize it!). I can take some of the ceiling panels off and run cooling duct, through one of the houses lower vents(at ground level), directly from outside. I can exhaust into the basement and let the air flow out the door (which goes directly outside). I was going to do my whole basement up, and make separate veg, flower and clone rooms, but that would require more money than I want to put out now.

I just need something that is efficient on electricity and useable light production. Cooling, humidity, etc, will be easy to control as I have a lot of space to work with. I am really just looking for Lights: cheap, and efficient for growing, is all I care about at this point. I am not looking to profit from these grows. i just basically want to make a perpetual grow so I don't have to waste money on other people's product that I can grow myself (I am 215).