Although I have already begun to piece this project together, I was wondering what sort of input I would get from the community in reference to this grow.

I have recently purchased 20 dual cold cathode kits, 18 red and 2 blue, to build a new grow lamp. My thinking was to immitate the LED habit (which has seen its success... thus my duplication) of providing the most efficient wavelengths and overcoming the heat factor in inside grows. I am unfortunately unaware what wavelength my cold cathodes emit at, although many red ccfl's that I have seen hover at around 630 nm. I have seen led grows use this wavelength, and am looking forward to using a higher intensity light. The blue should also be appropriate.

The tubes are rated to 28,000 cd/m2, which equals out to the equal number of lumens (ignoring the sensitivity of the human eye). The forty tubes combined will have an output at 160 Watts of 1,200,000 cd/m2, 90% red/10% blue. This should be most adequate for vegitative growth, and I am keeping CFL's for flowering, along with the HPS if the grow turns out disappointing.

You all should also know that this light is going to light 1 square meter, meaning there are over one million candellas available. I am rigging these lamps together to a pc power supply unit (350 Watt) based on a mod on the internet to build a light tester power source (that will be perfect to power it permanently, plus it only costs 9 euro on ebay!)

Will be posting pictures on rollitup.org and copying them here if that works. This is only my second post, so I look forward to hearing some comments and opinions on either the ingeniousness or stupidity of this project. Thanks again...