Can You Use A 600 Watt Bulb In A 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.

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

He said that cmh bulbs will even run on old school magnetic mh ballasts if the wattage is right that basically cmh ballasts are the same as old school mh ballasts. Anyway i run a 1000 watt bulb in a 600 watt ballast on my scrog for afew positive reasons. I ve been using a 400 watt hps bulb on a 1000 watt hps ballast for about a week now. If you have a 1000 watt bulb you need the 1000 watt model.

I am sure that a 1000 watt dimmed to 500 watts 50 will fire a 600 watt bulb. 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. I then put a 150 watt hps bulb on the same 1000 watt ballast. 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.

The bulb didn t immediately blow. 100 75 and 50. If the dimmer settings arent enough vivosun ballasts also come in 400 watt and 600 watt models that fit most hid lights. In example if you have the switch set at 400 watt with a 1000 watt bulb in it it will use about 430 watts.

The difference in the old. 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. 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. Yes you can dim a 1000 watt bulb to 600 or 400 and the ballast will only use about 20 30 watts more than the setting it is on.

This will refuce your electicity usage and it will reduce your heat by more than half. Just make sure to get the model that matches your bulb wattage. The up sides to this are the 1000w bulbs are much much bigger so the light is more evenly dispersed in my hood and through the canopy not only. It produces much whiter light than when running on the 150 watt ballast but it still didn t blow up.