Price for halides...?
 

So, anyone out there give me an idea of what kind of money I would need to spend to DIY a 4 foot canopy with dual 250W halides? Just looking for a guess really. Lokking by the way for a price with all wood, balasts, bulds, wires etc... Sure don't like the idea of spending as much as they ask retail!!!!

-What type of wood? oak, birch, plywood, osb?
-What type of bulb? SE or DE?
-What type of ballast? 175W, 250W, 400W, HQI, etc..?

Too many variables... :mrgreen:

Don't care about the wood, probably single ended and 250 watters. I'm just looking for an aproximation... doesn't need to be any kind of accurate.

You can buy a ballast kit from ebay and save money.
I have bought 1 400w ballast for $50 shipping included you just need to make an enclosure for the ballast. And also you can try looking for a bulb in ebay it runs from $60 up..

Lights
 

Heh... I'm building my own right now... 2 x 250W and 2 x 96W PC's and 2 x 96W PC Actinics... 2 - 6 inch fans, I scrounged some beautiful parabolic reflectors and built a custom canopy with 2 - 4 1/2 inch ball bearing fans, and 2 - 3 inch controlled via a thermostat... by the time I'm done this will have cost me a bundle... close to $1300 and that's scrounging quite a bit of hardware, paint, etc... BUT... after looking around, you can't find anything "factory made" like that .... 900 watts... I'll post pics when I am finished...

Jim.

I did my dual 250w SE, 2 110w VHOs for about $800.

I used mdf and have a dual HQI ballast, 2 120mm fans.