Quote Originally Posted by turtle420
As dboy says, you'll be fine with what you bought.

But more expensive lights, are 'brighter'. They have better engineering in them... I trully don't remember who's post it was, but they guy did a before/after shot comparison with his old HPS and with a new 'fancy' one HPS... and the new bulb, you could definitely see the difference in the pictures.

You're fine.
Are these the pics you were talkin about turtle? Pic 1 is of a standard HPS. Pic 2 is of Hortilux HPS.

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