70w hps club

Diesel_N_Blood · Sep 17, 2011

budelight said:
Diesel_N_Blood Thanks for chiming in and asking for more specifics!

Lights - 1 x 70w HPS horizontal along the top middle of the cap.

If it were my grow I try to bring up the w's per sqft(50w sqft is standard, any more is not going to gain more yeild). Take the closetmaid cab suggested above. It's 12"x24"=2sqft. So you'd only have 35w a sqft. If you'd add 2 26w 3000k cfls now you're at 122w with 61wsqft plus 3 light sources.

As you might remember i am using a 70w hps. Havent decided if it was worth my time to make a remote balast. It stays cool enough "i think" without putting in the labor of love in moding it.

It is always a good idea to remote ballast if you can. Doesn't take long and removes heat from grow and let's ballast run cooler which will lengthen it's life.

Grow Type - Will probably be training and did plan to scrog, however since i dont have fem seeds and no place to keep clones yet, i will just be doing sog.

I'd go for 4 plants from seed and lst them early. Once a mother is made then make clones and sog the shit out of it. Once you get set you could go perp. and be harvesting weekly.

Fans - My hope is to have 1 small, powerful, quiet fan pulling air out with passive intakes from veg -> flower -> utility rooms. Currently i have 1 10inch OdorSok that came with a kit i bought. I personally dont trust is as much as a carbon filter, though i have never used either.

does it have a cfm rating. Also depending on strain odor may not be a huge problem. The odorsock might work. Remember 2x the intake area than the exhuast.

I am looking to get a small quantity, enough for me and my better half, to perpetually harvest around 1 oz per month, every month.

all dependent on you. No one can tell you what you'll havest. But 2 larger sog'ed type plants should yeild that every month. If you find a 60 day havest strain.

If you have a link to the cab @ walmart, please share!

walmart sells the same cabinet that was linked to above for $29. Nice cab for a small grow.

Hope all is well with your 70w mh security light, your grow looks great! K+ good luck with the hermi

Thanks. I just went ahead a killed the hermi. Just looking forward to moving out of current place for a more secure local. I've got a 150w hps and just ordered a 600w hps so I'm going to have 2 diffent flower cabs and one veg ( pulling the 2 70w mh out and putting them in another veg cab)

trichogg · Oct 19, 2011

Nice thread, I might just get a 70w for my 15"x15" speaker box. I have a cooltube with a 48w cfl right now but that 70 watter sounds good..
Anybody know where the security lights are on sale in So.Cal ?

stihgnobevoli · Oct 19, 2011

try lowes and home depot if you have them where you live. if not there is always the internet. i like 1000bulbs.com

budelight · Jan 2, 2012

Happy New Years Everyone!!!

:dance013:

Here is an update on my 70w cab with 3 clones from the most potent plant i grew out last batch plus a few seeds from Nirvana's Northern Light and Snow White collections!

Cheers,
Budelight

HighPlainsToker · Jan 4, 2012

Hi all, I guess I'm in! Here's my cab I just downsized. I used to run this with 250W, but that was overkill for my smoking needs, so I'm now set up with a 70W HPS and 2x26 CFL. I hope to get a shipment of beans sometime soon, and get this greened up a little bit!

blaster528 · Feb 13, 2012

so ive gone over almost all of this thread and have only seen one post about it. was curious what k value people are running? think the highest one i could find was 2100k. is everyone using that or are people using the 1900k and 2000k? thanks for any responses

jnlockar · Feb 15, 2012

Im in!!

budelight · Mar 3, 2012

With wahter that has a 4.8 ph and 84ppm ... We Start The Flush!

Decided the ladies did not need another week of nutes just by looking at them.

Here are the photos i just took to show you what i mean

Cheers,
Budelight

PS. Thanks for watching all, i will continue to update, but i want to give a :thank you:

to all the supporters/trouble-shooters/mentors/followers that we have here. This ones for you!

budelight · Mar 8, 2012

glockdoc · Mar 26, 2012

oo im here. plan on doing a 70w cab myself. please keep this thread kicking!

stihgnobevoli · Mar 26, 2012

still going. like dat rabbit.

NEWUKGROWER420 · Mar 26, 2012

hi all thinking about joining this awsome club , could you tell me if a 70w SON floodlight is what i need like this one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Deluce-DL...UK_BOI_Lights_Lighting_ET&hash=item2561324181

whats the difference between SON and HPS ? OR ARE THEY BOTH HPS ? THANKS

glockdoc · Mar 27, 2012

someone send me a 70w floodlight now

stihgnobevoli · Mar 27, 2012

www.1000bulbs.com best prices. no CMH though.

glockdoc · Mar 27, 2012

someone said cmh or chps dont need ballast and can be plugged into regular standard sockets?!??! is that true? i doubt it, im sure they still need ballasts.

stihgnobevoli · Mar 28, 2012

i dunno who told you that but im glad you haven't tried it.

cmh bulbs under 250w need a pulse start mh ballast of which i will be buying one in the future. cmh bulbs over 250 DO NOT NEED PULSE START. in fact that will make them explode prolly. for over 250w cmh a regular MAGNETIC ballst for HPS is what you need.

no HID lamps operate without a proper ballast. unpossible. will not fire.

GreenFlash · Mar 28, 2012

HPS WORKING WITHOUT STARTER

HPS WORKING WITHOUT STARTER

glockdoc said:
someone said cmh or chps dont need ballast and can be plugged into regular standard sockets?!??! is that true? i doubt it, im sure they still need ballasts.

Osram SE HSE-MF NAV-E 70W I E27

this bulb works without starter. It is 70Watts. The only disadvantage is that the bulb is coated.

Rated color rendering index (Ra) 14
Rated luminous flux 6167 lm
Nominal luminous flux 5600 lm
Luminous flux 5600 lm
Rated color temperature 1900K
Color rendering index Ra ≤ 25 0.90 0.84 0.80
Rated LLMF at 12000h 0.79
Color temperature 2000K
Color rendering group 4
Luminance 9 cd/cm²
Luminous efficacy 80 lm/W

It has more lumens than regular CFL.
Be good and I hope i helped you a bit :tiphat:

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stihgnobevoli · Mar 28, 2012

oh yeah that will work without an ignitor its an hps, hps don't use ignitors only MH ballasts. for CMH you will need a pulse start ballast up to 150-200w whatever the highest bulb and ballast is they make before 250w. 250+w cmh can use a regular hps magnetic ballast because those all have ignitors. low wattage hps and mh ballast don't need an ignitor to light the bulb except for the pulse start which is a newer technology.