****Ghetto Mercury Vapor****

[Completely Stoned]

Here's the ballast I stole from that light pole and i wired it all up like you guys said. Green to ground We bought a bulb and it F'n worked. EUREKA I love it lol. It's pretty damned bright but it looks like its more on the BLUE Spectrum to me so... I dunno. Does this Light have any growing value and can it be used for flowering? I guess what I mean is: Is this Mercury Vapor 175W ballast and bulb better for flowering and overall growing than 6 23W CFL's?

P.S. I'll have the ballast mounted to a board and chains and a WHOLE bunch of other struff today so be prepared to see my grow log! LOTS OF UPDATES!!!

Completely Stoned Reviewed by Completely Stoned on 11-28-2006. ****Ghetto Mercury Vapor**** Here's the ballast I stole from that light pole and i wired it all up like you guys said. Green to ground :) We bought a bulb and it F'n worked. EUREKA I love it lol. It's pretty damned bright but it looks like its more on the BLUE Spectrum to me so... I dunno. Does this Light have any growing value and can it be used for flowering? I guess what I mean is: Is this Mercury Vapor 175W ballast and bulb better for flowering and overall growing than 6 23W CFL's? P.S. I'll have the ballast mounted Rating: 5

[BONG0]

why do u think its mercury vapor if u jacked it? how do u know? i would suggest using the CFLs along with the new fixture, and use some tin foil to make a reflecter under it.

[Bree1978]

I've read on here some people using MV lights...but I think they found out that isn't really the best spectrum. Do a search on it, I did when I saw that lowe's had mercury vapor lights for 30 bucks....I decided not to use them after the search btw. But maybe it is like the pp mentioned, in conjunction with cfl maybe okay?

[Dutch Pimp]

...Mercury Vapor?....you got the right string ..baby...but the wrong yo-yo..

High Pressure Sodium..or Metal Halide..bulbs...preferred...CFL's after that...

[TheGreenFog]

...Mercury Vapor?....you got the right string ..baby...but the wrong yo-yo..

High Pressure Sodium..or Metal Halide..bulbs...preferred...CFL's after that...

^LOL...good line. Yea, I'm having doubts about the Mercury Vapor use. You are really putting yourself in a challenging position if you try to use those. They are not the proper spectrum to grow MJ.



Also, stealing lights is not good. Go buy one...or trade out for one. Jacking stuff is not necessarily smiled upon here.

Think of it this way:

1. You steal a light fixture from a streetlamp or something.
2. Electric company finds out...and reports the theft to the police.
3. The police then do investigative research into the theft and monitor electricity usage in the area.
4. 5 growers in the area are busted because of your stealing a stupid light.

It's not worth it, man. Especially not to come and brag about it.


I'm not trying to get on your case, CS, just giving you a heads up. Karma, man, karma. Go return the light and buy a bunch of CFLs and/or an HPS.

Take care...


:rastasmoke:

TGF

[BONG0]

Ditto....

[santacruz_organic]

MV lights were used in the past but MH lights nearly replaced them. they are a little off the spectrum range being a little to blue.

[BONG0]

How were you able to scale a phone pole and take that off from there? u obvously had to break some wires with force, the enersha from your weight pulling it off dident make you fall?

[Completely Stoned]

K this light fixture is so old and not even used anymore. It just sat there being useless so I put it to good use. It was right next to my friends house who doesnt need it. It's alright for me to have stolen this. I'm sorry it is stealing but i dont have $150 to buy an HPS. I went and bought a Metal Halide bulb today though and put it in there. I got the metal halide to work up to full brightness! BUT now I cant even get it to spark yet the MV bulb still works. So WTF? The MH bulb was very very difficult to get to light up as well. It took like a dozen tries. I dont understand how this MH bulb works but damned if i could get it to glow and work properly.. I'd have buds. Good buds...

[Buckshot]

You cant just put a (now) probably burned out MH light in a MV fixture. Lowes had some pretty cheap MH fixtures...