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.
Can you put a 600 watt bulb in a 1000 watt ballast.
Yes it will draw closer to the 600 watt usage then the 1000 watt max.
But i m not sure my source is 100 percent reliable.
Best bang for your buck.
If you have a 400w you can put a 430w in an hps ballast.
Apollo horticulture purple reign 1000w.
1 000 watt mercury lamps come in two operating voltages one of which is ok for 1 000 watt metal halide ballasts.
This is the best digital ballast i can possibly recommend.
A low voltage lamp in a high voltage ballast will be underpowered resulting in reduced efficiency possible reduced lamp life and possible ballast overheating.
A few wattages of pulse start sodium 150 watts come in two voltages.
I m kinda new in agriculture and i need to buy mh kit.
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.
Comes with a lit digital screen a built in timer and other high end perks.
Excellent price point will fire 600 and 1000 watt mh hps bulbs.
Or digital ballast where they have a 1000w max and dimmable to 600w and 400w with the 1000w bulb.
Also i would like to know if and how that would affect the light.
And i want to know if there is any risk doing it.
This will refuce your electicity usage and it will reduce your heat by more than half.
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.
It has features and quality for a price no other ballast can beat.
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 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.