Lighting Question

[Wayne]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

Do a search on Odeassy fixture as some are known to be a fire hazard.

I would go with www.fishneedit.com instead as they get much better review and so far have not set fire to any house.

I read that quite a few Odeassy ballast cought fire or produced smoke and the owner was home and took care of it in time. I almost bought one and after reading about the fire hazard I decided to go with a Coralife instead. My next one is going to be the very nice fixture from fishneedit.com

This is true with the older fixtures. The newer fixtures have electronic ballasts that have the same reliablity as most name brand ballasts. I know of a few people that run the newer (at least 5 years now) ballasts without problem.

That being said I think with higher quality ballasts you get better, brighter colours out of your bulbs. A single mh should be enough over a 36" especially with 4 t5's aswell. I own the last generation of this fixture and its been good to me and I would buy again.