More lighting questions/ballast/bulb combinations

[BCOrchidGuy]

A Course?? omg that's just to funny. Yes it makes my head swim too, I wish the makers of halogen lights would get the halides together and make some 10,000k halogens then lets see what happens to MH prices.

For the price of those electronic ballasts from Ottawa that just may be the ticket, albeit more expensive than I had hoped.

Thanks for all the info Tony

Doug