Can You Put A 600 Watt Bulb In A 1000 Watt Ballast

The dimming does hurt the overall life of the bulbs in the long run but really 2 or 3 grows on a bulbs is about the max you want to really put on bulbs anyways.

Can you put a 600 watt bulb in a 1000 watt ballast.

I was told that this works with ballasts like my 1000w de phantom and 1000w de sunsystem ballasts possibly with my 1000w nanolux but that isn t tested yet. But to put a 1000w into a 600w ballast pry wont work or could blow up in your face or burn your house down if you left it running. You will need to use the 1000 watt bulbs in the fixture and yes you can dim it to the 600 watt setting. I was told that a 1000 watt de cmh bulb would work just fine with a 1000 watt de hps mh ballast so long as the ballast is set to 100 1000 watts.

The bulb completes the circuit and makes the ballast run off 400 watts. Yes you can use a smaller watt bulb with a higher watt ballast your bulb will only use 600 watts it won t burn up. A ballast can throw as much as 1000 watts but only when needed to the bulb controls that what dont all you get. I was on ebay pricing 600 watt ballasts and i noticed on one of the 1000 watt ballasts that the dimmable amounts were in percentages.

The bulb didn t immediately blow. It produces much whiter light than when running on the 150 watt ballast but it still didn t blow up. 100 75 and 50. Are you guys just saying all this cuz it sounds crazy.

I ve been using a 400 watt hps bulb on a 1000 watt hps ballast for about a week now. Yes it will draw closer to the 600 watt usage then the 1000 watt max. I am sure that a 1000 watt dimmed to 500 watts 50 will fire a 600 watt bulb. If you have a 400w you can put a 430w in an hps ballast.