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03-24-2007, 08:10 PM #21Senior Member
DIY HO flourecents
Very easy i have a 4 lamp im going to have to try this thanks!!!
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03-25-2007, 12:47 AM #22Senior Member
DIY HO flourecents
Well i tryed it and it worked so i have two bulbs 2x as bright anyone with flouros should do this!!!!!
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04-08-2008, 06:08 PM #23Senior Member
DIY HO flourecents
Hi OK I have read the whole thread and i am confused as to
what ballast your using.?
How many bulbs on it 2 or 4?
I think your saying you got a ballast from a T12 2lamp 8ft fixture
that runs 2 T12 8ft bulbs,(aren't those the high voltage ) and drove 2 T12 40w 4ftbulbs with it?
So basically you goto HomeDepot or Lowes get a (?________) ballast $$$, a 4ft 2 lamp shop lite$10/2 4ft 40w 6500k floro's 2pk7$I'm guessing those ballast are cheap!max20$???
so it will only cost a max of about $30$ Genius! :thumbsup:
plz correct me if i got it wrong and post the correct parts list(ballast)
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01-14-2012, 04:58 AM #24OPSenior Member
DIY HO flourecents
I'm back with some soldid #'s for growing w\/flouro tubes. Been otg w/o internet for sometime. Using my diy fixturess been getting 1.5-2g per watt w/mandala hashberry. No ac is needed anylonger. Light bill is under $100 now 200 summer for whole house. Grow space is sog 8'lx 2'w'2'h. Plants finish about 10 -12" in Wendy's cups 32oz. Space holds 60 plants. While not too impressive when you can grow in an attic in southern LA stealthily. Grams per watt not great. Dollars per gram is awesome. I'm using the cheapest 3000- 3200k t12 t8s I can find. Not worth the expense for expensive ho bulbs. This is cheap lowes dirt w/minimal GL brand superbloom and alaska fish fert and Ultragreen when they look like the need more
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01-14-2012, 06:13 AM #25OPSenior Member
DIY HO flourecents
I must say that I run a perpetual grow in most of the cab of several varieties maybe 20-30 hashberry at a time. I averaging hb w/plants per and grams per watt. I'm thinking about losing the side mounted t8's for led 50w panels. I could fit anther 30 plants in that way. This system has halved the light bill without the cooling necessary for 800Whps. It has taken a long time to get the best out of flouro tubes. You can see the used car heater core that is supplied by well water in the summer..140f in atttic summer 90-95 in cabinet. Plants grow to touch lights, t12's have 86f surface temp. Some of the cheap shoplight ballasts have failed due to deletion of heatsink on one of the components. Replaced ballast w/GE96hoMVNDIY from homedepot 2 out of 16 fixtures (including veg/clone areas). 24hrs veg 13.5hrs flower. Can't get video to load. Low tech guy new to andriod.
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01-15-2012, 04:21 PM #26Senior Member
DIY HO flourecents
Interesting...
I started out by buying a $35 HD two bulb T5 fixture and two HO bulbs. Then I discovered that the HO bulbs needed a different fixture. I just bought some regular lights and put it up in my garage for light.
Then bought HO fixtures.
Curious about what the thread was about, the original link is missing.
So you have lots of small plants, I haven't tried doing that. You just put them into flower when they're one month old or so?
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01-15-2012, 09:17 PM #27OPSenior Member
DIY HO flourecents
If you take apart 2 Walmart lights of America shop lights you can wire each bulb w/it's own 2bulb ballast. While over the years I have tried almost every bulb/ballast combo, the cheap stuff works just as good. Flower time is faster w/ colored bulbs red 625nm kino flow and 420nm on seperate timers (think low $ PAD). The yeild suffers. I've even tried some German 60" Osram L58W/60 in different colors. PIA. I'm thinking about a detailed instructional video. Tacman w/ flouro tubes SOG is the only way to get yeild up
I'm running 60 at a time in flower cab packed like sardines when they get top heavy they hold eachother up.
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01-16-2012, 03:03 PM #28Senior Member
DIY HO flourecents
That sounds great, I might have to give that a try.
Each plant is just one bud?
How long do you veg?
I'm running an 8 bulb T5 which is using close to 500 watts! Only 3 plants in there, now that I've trimmed the fans there is more room, so I'm going to move some other plants in with them. The 3 are almost finished.
Less electric bills would be nice.
If I made a 2' wide 2' tall 4' long box, you think two T5 HO bulbs would do? or more like 4 bulbs?
Thanks for the info!
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01-17-2012, 01:21 AM #29OPSenior Member
DIY HO flourecents
Tacman- I veg a bit longer than that. Keep taking clones 'till the main stem is nice and stout about 8" and have 3-4 nice size colas (on hasberry & most heavy indica) on sativa leaning strains I keep mainstem shorter and maybe 6-8 colas like a candlabra. A lot of the time my veg time depends on space. Always keep flower cab full. Keep nitrogen out of the flower cab unless obvious def. Or you'll have to trim inflower sometimes you do anyway f98ks up main cola but end up w/hard little nugs lower down.
Those t-5s might do 4 for veg 2 for clones but inflower you have to have all 8. The evenness of floro is the advantage not penetration. If there is no bulb directly over the plant no yeild. I just pulled a runt that only ended up about 12" tall 10" away from light 5grams if I'm lucky and that is with side light. The cab you describe would have 20-30 minimum 50 if you don't have any sidelights. 50 times 10-15 grams minimum :-)
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