CFL from Bunnings

[makosmokes]

Hi, I'm new around here. Thinking about growing a plant or two on a tight budget. I've grown before with an HPS lamp. Keen to try CFL and after a little research I found this:

 

http://www.commercialelectric.com.au/CEWL2...Work_Light.html

 

Bunnings has these for $65 that's 130W of fluoro that you just have to plug in. No need to buy or make reflectors and fittings. I think it said cool white on the box but nothing about colour temp, so I'm guessing maybe 4000K. You could even use the stand to raise 'em up as the plants get bigger.

 

What do you think, is it worth giving them a go?

[makosmokes]

After a little more googling, I think the lamps in this thing are these ones:

 

http://www.naturallighting.com/web/shop.ph...ion=show_detail

 

So 6500K after all. perfect.

[TD.]

130w CFL

[bluntman_77]

tds cfls are much better , 2 will do a small grow very well

[bbates]

Hi, I'm keen to get something like this from bunnings for a 2 - 4 plant grow, can you let me know how it went and what I should be getting. I'm not interested in using Ebay and I plan a trip to bunnings later this week so I would apreciate some ideas on what I should buy when I'm there as I won't be able to go there very often as it's quite a way from where I live.