Quote Originally Posted by irishbud
tevfik that light setup you have looks great. i done what you suggested i went out and bought the bulbs ballast etc, they had to order them in. i got 4 55w 6500k 2 80w 3000k and 2 55w 2700k. now how many plants did you have under your 4 bulb pl-l setup? and what did you use for a reflective is that mylar?
Wait, there is sth wrong with it. What kind of light setup you're thinking about? You should buy all the lights in same wattage. Otherwise it will cost more. each ballast can run 2 bulbs in same wattage. This mean you will run 4 6500k with two 55w ballast. But for flowering you'll need one more ballast for 80w bulbs. Or you need wide range ballast which i didn't see yet. Even if it is exist I'm sure its much more expensive.
As i understand you want to run 4 bulbs at once, right? So, 3x6500k and 3x2700k/3000k can be enough. 55w or 80w its your choice, more is better. You can mix the spectrums and by doing this you save money for 2 bulbs. Or you can just buy 4 blue and 4 red as you did but same wattage. Not a big deal.

My bulbs are 36W and 4 of them fully covering two plants and partially 2 more. I have 5 plants in my cabinet but it seems its not enough for five (i mean the cabinet) Could be nice with 3 plants.
reflector material for the cabinet is called diamond shape reflector. Similar to mylar. For the bulbs i just bough half meter of antidetect reflector coz it is easy to give shape to make reflector and stable
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