Quote Originally Posted by justaseed
i guess your right, all this shit just gets me nervous sometimes i have 2 young children who need me not to go to jail for gardening! it wouldn'ty hurt to put a fan blowing on the ballast.
actually now im in need of your/someones help....
the ballast heat is not the prob.... its actually the bulb itself

my GR was at 72-80'F when i was using floros, and the closet has 2 20inch box fans in it (1 on the shelf blowing on the ballast/plants the other is at the bottom of the door used as exaust, and i know it should be intake at the bottom and exaust at top but i cant afford to do the wall work now):smokin:

but now my GR is normal on the OFF hours but when it comes on ot only takes about 15 minutes to heat my whole room to about 90'F (which makes sleeping difficult) i have a digital in/out hydothermomter in there and it is as follows
at the tops of the plants 88-91'F
2 inches away from the bulb 128.3'F constant
my whole bedroom 85-90'F

so my room faces the front of our house and i put a fan in the window (which with my light leaks (above pics) it fucking scares me to death to open the window (the ON cycle is from midnight to noon)

so my fan is blowing in winter air at 35'F (which is suspicious as hell) into my room and my room temp stays at 75F and will not drop and my exaust fan is like a damn space heater blowing this hot air out

please what do i do

im in fear of getting caught by neighbors seeing this activity and such so what can be done for light leaks and heat (btw the above pics do... i repeat DO have 6 mil plastic on the closet door vents)

god i didnt think 1K of light would be this hard to maintain!!!!

help needed...

thanks in advance,
ronjohn