ok, i grew outdoors last year and caught the addiction lol, but my outdoor plant wasn't very good, it got me 3 ounces but my area doesn't get enough sunlight to grow quality buds, so what im planning on doing is turning my closet into a grow room, it's 4' x 2' x 8'. I only plan to grow 1-2 plants at a time all for personal use, would a 150W HPS work? I'm trying to stay around $60-$70 i found this one High Pressure Sodium Ballast Kits but was wondering if anyone could recommend a better or cheaper one. ordering a kit and doing it yourself seems to be the cheapest way to go, but if i can get a pre-configured fixture I would prefer to do that. I already have most of the stuff for everything else (cooling, housing, etc..) so the $60-$70 limit is mainly for a ballast, igniter, capacitor, bulb and socket. any help would be greatly appreciated.
If your only going to only do 2 plants I would look into a 150-200 watt HID light hood with built in ballast it will cost a little more then $70.00 but would be the best way to go.
I think I'm leaning toward this one. 150 watt HPS GROW LIGHT Ballast Bulb Lamp Hood 150w w - eBay (item 160496965672 end time Jan-20-11 12:31:01 PST)
From Amazon. If I was buying one I would just gor with one with a built in ballast, that low of watts isnt going to generate that much heat. There a little more then the HTG but to me you get what you pay for. http://www.amazon.com/Sun-System®-G...0BWG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294211350&sr=8-1 [ame]http://www.amazon.com/150-Watt-Sunburst-System-Bulb/dp/B0029OFMX0/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1294211399&sr=8-5[/ame]
yea i was looking at that one too but pretty much everyone i asked said it would be better to have a separate ballast to minimize the heat and the enclosure that one is in makes it even harder to vent the heat.
If your gonna have it in a small enclosed area then yes I would go with a seperate ballast. I missed the part of your first post where it said closet grow, had a brain fart there. Not sure how much heat that hood and light would generate inside of a closet. What are your plans for air ventilation in your closet set up?
i was thinking of having the ballast outside of the closet and for air circulation i was gonna put in some air duct's one at the top for the exhaust with one of those DIY carbon filter's for the smell and one at the bottom on the opposite side for intake, both would have fans, the intake with a slightly weaker fan.