I currently am running a 250watt enclosed ballast lamp for my small closet (2.5'x4.5'x6') grow and it raises the temps roughly 15-20 degrees. I will be replacing that with a 400watt remote ballast (ballast will be placed outside of the room) and was curious as to others opinions on which lamp would put out more heat, so let me know. I should be getting it sometime this coming week so Ill update this when I put it to use and see how it fares. Heres the 250 I have and the hood for the 400 coming soon:
Lol, thats awesome Burnz...made perfect sense man. I was thinking the ballast would account for at least 30% of the total but thinking sometimes gets me into trouble Thanks a lot man, thats a perfect way to look at it and it helped me a bunch