Gunlove
Grow addict to the gills.
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- May 11, 2007
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Hey Growheads!
I have a question to pose to those who know more than I. Now, I'd never do this personally BUT I'm getting ahead of myself . . .
I sold a guy an old ballast, reflector and bulb for $100 -- 1000 watt HPS. I get an email from him, he's a friend of mine, and he says that the ballast and bulb died. I figured that a thunderstorm came through a few nights back and a surge killed it -- I'm bummed as he's a pal (we share smoke and clones and stuff). I spoke to him on the phone today and he said that the bulb didn't spark up when he set it up, SO he put a metal halide in it and it ran for awhile and the ballast up and died.
Now I know what you're all thinking, I thought it too -- why would anyone ever try it if he/she wasn't trying to blowup their gear. However, he says that he's done it forever and his son does it too -- run both types of tubes (mh and hps) on the same ballast. I know that some ballasts are set up for it -- some switch manually and some auto, just like most will run either 120 or 240 volt -- I run two CAP NextGen 1000s right now and they switch auto, BUT THE QUESTION IS MY FINE FRIENDS, will running an HPS ballast with a MH bulb kill the ballast? At the very least it can't be good for it. I'm really surprised that it even fired up.
I personally wouldn't ever even think of it. I bought a HPS to MH conversion bulb when I was using that very same ballast. So, you guys are the jury -- what is the verdict???
I have a question to pose to those who know more than I. Now, I'd never do this personally BUT I'm getting ahead of myself . . .
I sold a guy an old ballast, reflector and bulb for $100 -- 1000 watt HPS. I get an email from him, he's a friend of mine, and he says that the ballast and bulb died. I figured that a thunderstorm came through a few nights back and a surge killed it -- I'm bummed as he's a pal (we share smoke and clones and stuff). I spoke to him on the phone today and he said that the bulb didn't spark up when he set it up, SO he put a metal halide in it and it ran for awhile and the ballast up and died.
Now I know what you're all thinking, I thought it too -- why would anyone ever try it if he/she wasn't trying to blowup their gear. However, he says that he's done it forever and his son does it too -- run both types of tubes (mh and hps) on the same ballast. I know that some ballasts are set up for it -- some switch manually and some auto, just like most will run either 120 or 240 volt -- I run two CAP NextGen 1000s right now and they switch auto, BUT THE QUESTION IS MY FINE FRIENDS, will running an HPS ballast with a MH bulb kill the ballast? At the very least it can't be good for it. I'm really surprised that it even fired up.
I personally wouldn't ever even think of it. I bought a HPS to MH conversion bulb when I was using that very same ballast. So, you guys are the jury -- what is the verdict???
