Fluorescent 105watt ?anybody use?

[Dankerz]

105 Watt - Full Spectrum High Definition - 5000 Kelvin - Compact Fluorescent - 105W/SPRING/50K - Eiko #81180

Product Cost Per 100 hrs. = $0.27
105W 120V Spiral 5000K Medium Base
Manufacturer: EIKO
Manufacturer's Part Number: 81180
105W/SPRING/50K
Life Hours: 10,000
105 Watts
Approximate Incandescent Equivalent: 500 Watts
Initial Lumens: 6,900
Color Rendering Index: 84
Color Temp: 5,000
Warranty: 12 Months
$34.00 per light
anybody use these or know if they can be used for veg? never used flouros before. anybody?

 

[Capone]

not me

 

[Viracocha711]

Not that brand name but I do use 3-6500K 125watt CFL's and 3-125watt 2700K CFL's...

I LOVE THEM! They offer a lot of light/lumens and no heat!

 

[Dankerz]

thanx guys.. im going to get myself one cant hurt to try and after reading many thread on flouros i think they without a doubt will work.. 105watt and 6,900 lumens will veg plants real good

 

[DLtoker]

watt/lumen is a horribly low ratio though... What are the perks of using this light?

 

[Dankerz]

just to veg some beans..got a 150hps here but dont like the heat and over brightness it gives being i dont have a box/growroom etc. flouros are easy to but anyplace and not as much heat..from what i read its as good as it gets per watt/lumen..if you know of better let me know..!?
thanx

 

[DLtoker]

Well a HPS is by far the most efficient grow light you can buy at a reasonable price. There are LED lights but those are way to expensive at this point in time for me.

A 150W HPS can put out about 100 Lumen/Watt while that light you just posted about 60 Lumen/Watt. With these fluorescent bulbs, there is a lot of electricity that is simply wasted.

 

[Dankerz]

100 hours of a flouro use is .27 cents while the hps is $3-4$ per 100 hours and 30 more lumens per watt is not that big a diff.. i just dont have the room to setup the hps but i do have a small cabinet to put a flouro..
have you checked out the flouro grows they are doing with lowryder? using 4-5 -30 watt flouros?
they work

 

[Dankerz]

their is know question than a 150watt hps or any hps will out grow any flouro, but when you want low heat,low cost and only have a small box to grow in and dont want to spend $$ on hps,vents,fans etc flouro can do the trick.
hps will last a hell of alot longer as well and the bulbs are cheap if and when you need to replace!

 

[maineharvest]

Im using floros on two of my plants and like you said they dont compare to my plants under the hps but it is cheaper and less heat.

 

[DLtoker]

Every Watt costs the same amount. If a fluorescent and an incandescent both are 100W bulbs, they will cost the same amount to run. 27 cents to run for 100 hours??? What is the electric rate? I use fluoros myself... but they are T5s. I don't go near HIDs due to the heat being in such a localized area. I guess what I am getting at is where they came up with the 27 cents...

 

[Viracocha711]

Floros are cheaper if you figure in what it cost to keep HID heat under control in many growrooms...I know this is the case in my room, I can run all my floros (5-125w or 625watts of floros) and the room temp does not rise. And if it does it is only a degree or two over several hours. Now, if I fire up the 600 hps the AC will kick in within 15 minutes.

As far as flowering under floros, I have no personal experience...


DL, those T5's do really well flowering, right? I have heard that the 8 bulb Tek lights w/T5 bulbs perform right there with an 600w hps, is this true?

 

[DLtoker]

Here, here and here

These are all lowryder 2s in flower. I have flowered full size 2.5' plants as well as clones under T5s with great results.

 

[booradley]

I agree with DLToker. t-5s are the way to go. See my post on the woes of high wattage CFLs! I'd place a link but as a noob, I can't yet.

BTW, DL, are all those bud grown entirely under t-5s? man I got to get some better girls!

 

[DLtoker]

Yuppers. That's all I will use unless for some reason, someone gives me a HID.

 

[Viracocha711]

Sweeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Draston]

I'd say just get a low watt HPS system instead. Its may seem like more money now but its cheaper in the long run and produces more light than an even wattage CFL alternative.

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

true but u can do it with fluros look at my set up if it was short it would work alot better but i have 5 150w 3,000 lumins fluros 3800k light spectrum plus another 1,100 lumin tube fluro wide spectrum at the bottem its cheap and low heat

 

[Draston]

thats not a lot of light man....

I have 1 female right now too and I use the following:

4 4 foot floros (3 red spectrum 3400 lumens each and 1 cool blue spectrum 1900 lumens)
3 cfl's (warm spectrum 2700 lumens each)

It's just over 20k lumens total and I have my lights right on my plant.

 

[RatherBBurnin]

I was in Walmart the other day and they had these CFL that were 50/100/150W... real big looking ones... Anyone ever seen these... are they switchable or something???