Fluorex, is it any good?

[Kurtfolder]

It's made form lights of america and it's geared toward the natural spectrum of light. it's 100w and gives off 1471 LUMNES. I have other tublighting with natural day specturm so I can supplement. Just want to know if this CFL is legit

Kurtfolder Reviewed by Kurtfolder on 10-29-2005. Fluorex, is it any good? It's made form lights of america and it's geared toward the natural spectrum of light. it's 100w and gives off 1471 LUMNES. I have other tublighting with natural day specturm so I can supplement. Just want to know if this CFL is legit Rating: 5

[Kurtfolder]

one more thing, if it says it uses only 25w and it's meant to replace a 100w could I buy one to replace 150w and it only uses 65w. My lamp can only handle 100w from a incadescent.

[HydroDynamics]

It's Lumens that count. All the watts that replace watts stuff doesn't add up to anything. It's a hyped up energy saving thing for homeowners and replacing incandecents.

Most of the bulbs you get also have the Kelvin temp on them 6500 is about daylight, with not much if any at all in the red spectrum. I got my seedlings going with 2x32 watt tube florecents, and can't be more happier. Kept it 1" off the plants, and then switched to MH after a week. No stretch at all, and growing like a weed after only 2 weeks.

CFL are great, but you can get a MH setup cheap on ebay if you look, or build your own on the cheap too. I suggest using an old ammo box as the ballast container drilled with holes for air to cool it down a bit. Use 4 long bolts through the transformer, with an stand off on the bottom for air circulation under the transformer, strap the caps to the sides with some zip ties, and an electric cord 25', socket, and some hardware, and your done.

[Zandor]

That light is fine, I use it myself for one of my smaller cloners. I did build a batwing and modify the light to not use that housing but just hang the bulb under the batwing. That's just me, but as for the light it's fine.

[Kurtfolder]

Thanks for the tip hydro but I have a hole in my pocket as is so I'm not spending a whole lot of money right now.

well with the daylight spectrum bulb I only get 1471 lumes but there are the same exact lightbulbs but they come in cool white and generate 1700 lumes, should I stick with the daylight bulb?

[stickygreenlightsabr]

Those bulbs are great, I used 4 of them to supplement veg and now for clones.

[africansunset]

they arent just great - THEY ARE AWESOME - I use fluoreX for vegging all my plants.....but NOT for budding!!! I use the 65Watt bulbs... 4 of them for 25 plants.