Anyone use actinic supplementation with 400W MHs?

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Originally Posted by wickedfrags.com

Not sure who would suggested refraining from actinics on your system........what possible reason could there be???

Plan them into your system, and should you not be pleased with the colour spectrum with the halides on, simply run them for a dawn to dusk effect. You may change bulbs later and run them, who knows.

Also be mindful that different ballasts will fire XM bulbs differently, meaning one may produce more blue/white light than another.

Personlly, I have used 400W XMs on Maxkor ballasts with VHO actinics for 3 years and am pleased with their performance and colour. At them same time I do not recommend the Maxkors as IME they have proven not to be reliable.

mind you every time i think about the intensity of a 400-watt i tend to shy away from actinics, at the end i'll probably end up with them though..

Very true different ballasts differnet output, the one i'm getting soon is a PFO, i'm really hoping that the actinics show even with the 14k's, i think i'll be ok though as alot of 14k's are a crisp whiteish blue like the hamiltons i'm running now, and i'm going with 1x96 watt PC which I've heard is brighter than VHO in most cases.