Lighting 700 watt CFL Setup, less than $25 With Bulbs

[Organic Mechanic]

Me and my growing partner "Tom" Have been talking about starting a budget grow, so we decided to build a "True Budget Grow Room"

The Goal: Build for less than $50

While going though the things we needed, i decided to build our grow light, and wanted to share what I had done.





There are a total of 3 100W Daylight Cool light Bulbs, 3 100W Daylight Warm light bulbs

The whole setup cost less than $25 at Home Depot.Parts and cost are as follows.

1 floodlight enclosure box w/o = $4.00
7 flood light fixtures= 7.00
4 pack cool light CFL bulbs= 4.99
4 Pack warm light CFL Bulbs= 4.99


The one in the middle is a 100W 10% UVB Spectrum reptile Vision light which I already had.

I will be adding 4 light splitters after bloom begins, with 4 more bulbs, 2 warm, and 2 cool.I will post pics as we progress.

I got the splitters on Ebay for 1.00 each

The Mylar is a space blanket from walmart. $1.98

This setup runs 161 actual watts, 11,200 lumen, and costs about $14 a year to run.


Thoughts?? comments??

 

[natertots]

Cool setup. Im actually in the middle of makeing alittle cfl cubby as well. 13 watt bulbs here are like 7 bucks lol. Bought 2 of the 40 something watt 2700k bulbs for 10 bucks each and im sure ill be adding some littleones too. Im scrounging sockets outa old lamps and throwing them away lol.

 

[Organic Mechanic]

Thats awesome, like i always say, Waste is a byproduct of unimaginitive people. the good thing is that CFLs are getting cheaper, if the environmental movement has been good for anything, its definitely that.

 

[GCase]

Excellent Organic M. Many will appreciate your budget grow design.

Cheers

 

[purplexxhaze]

Make sure you have plenty of ventilation, it's gonna get hot with all those cfls running. Looks cool tho, good work man

 

[Organic Mechanic]

It's been good so far, but I do have temperature fail-safes. Thanks for the input though. Every little thing matters.

 

[purplexxhaze]

That's for sure. I'm thinking about doing the sane type of setup for clones and veg, cheaper than a t5 and it's nice being able to mix a few uvb bulbs into the mix.

 

[Organic Mechanic]

That's for sure. I'm thinking about doing the sane type of setup for clones and veg, cheaper than a t5 and it's nice being able to mix a few uvb bulbs into the mix.

I use a 10% UVB bulb that is geared towards vision for reptiles. This allows me to run it all the time, and i just keep it in the middle socket. I find that a constant UVB light, and some raw sugar and some unsulfured molasses at the end of the grow seems to increase my THC content by 4 or 5%. i wouldn't suggest running a full uvb for more than a couple hours a day. but this setup works quite well for me, and i have little to complain about come harvest time.

 

[Organic Mechanic]

This is the 10% UVB bulb I am using.

 

[Woolly]

Is the dog your growing partner? "pher Wiggle"

The cat is my partner.:dance2: