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

Or digital ballast where they have a 1000w max and dimmable to 600w and 400w with the 1000w bulb.

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

The bulb didn t immediately blow. 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. It produces much whiter light than when running on the 150 watt ballast but it still didn t blow 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 then put a 150 watt hps bulb on the same 1000 watt ballast. 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. Yes it will draw closer to the 600 watt usage then the 1000 watt max. I ve been using a 400 watt hps bulb on a 1000 watt hps ballast for about a week now.

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. 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. I am sure that a 1000 watt dimmed to 500 watts 50 will fire a 600 watt bulb. You will need to use the 1000 watt bulbs in the fixture and yes you can dim it to the 600 watt setting.

100 75 and 50. 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. Ive witnessed it done by accident like i told all you and for 2 months it ran 24 7 and no arcs no burnt bulbs or nothing and then for the 2nd time i met this guy and he ran a 600 watter in a 1000 watter look at it for your own eyes. Are you guys just saying all this cuz it sounds crazy.