Has Anyone Used One of These?

I've never used one but it seems very straight foward...

It looks like it works and because I've wired a few sockets myself I can tell you that it will work as expected, I wish I knew about these things along time ago. I usually get the ceramic sockets from home depot.

For pics of someone else using them go to this thread:

http://forum.grasscity.com/grow-room-design-setup/180109-pc-grow-box-completed.html

You can see the sockets in action, looks like they work great!

 

I would be concerned that there isn't any secure method with those. I wouldn' t want my bulb slowly pulling itself out of the socket and falling on a plant or something.

I really recommend getting the light sockets with screw in retainers, you can mount them on a 1x2" board or something, and can even make it movable then. Just grab the screw in type sockets, and not the snap in type and it should be a breeze to set up something to mount them to. The snap in sockets are easy to identify as they have a metal snap in thingy protruding from the back, and the screw in have little screw holes.

 

You can use those. If you want to be cheap and easy you can rig up a surge protector power strip to the top of a box. String extension cables down into the box with bulbs on them. If they dont stick in the plug just get out some pliers and squeeze the prongs together a little bit.
They also make splitters like this that can be useful.

All of this stuff is ideal for a creative small CFL grow. Great if you don't want to play around with wires and possibly electrocute yourself or burn your house down.

 

Hey dude I got that exact same thing at wal-mart for $1 EACH. I bought six of em and have 6 23 watt cfl's plugged into them. I haven't had any problems with them, but this is the first grow i've done indoors. I think you'll be perfectly fine with these.

p.s. the ones i got were the screw in type, not the snap kind

 

I am far from an expert on electrical junk but watts are supposed to be the measurement of units of electricity. A 100 watt CFL uses something like 28 watts to output what a normal 100 watt incandescent would put out. This means having 5 CFLs all tangled from one plug is using a little less energy than a 150 watt incandescent bulb that you find in most homes.
Can anyone else with more experience clarify?

 

check out my updated grow
i have a 4 light setup using those and y splitters
they work like a charm

 

CFL's are tuff to get the exact amount of wattage being used. There is some lost energy in CFL ballasts therefore they use a little more power than they state on the package. The difference isn't that much though.

I would have to agree with surfmasterflash as those adapters do not look too safe for continuous use, especially taking in acount the weight of each bulb. Over time, i'm sure the socket would eventually pull out of the plug exposing the bare metal prongs to the elements. With bare Hot metal showing at all I would be concerned while I was not at my house. I may be getting too anal about safety, but if it was me I would find an alternative route. Also, without a rating listed on the adapter about how many watts is the max it should take, i would be skeptical about! I thought it was required for something that is UL listed to have such a rating. So maybe the device is not UL listed which would really turn me the other way. Good chance though that there is a rating somewhere, you just have to look hard.

Like someone else said, buy some permanent sockets and mount them to some wood or some sheet metal and make your own electrically safe light!

Good Luck, peace and pot!