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Good day all - I have recently purchased two digital ballasts, a 600w and a 1000w. Both have 120v - 240v capability, both are able to run at 50%, 75%, and 100% wattage.
While talking with my hydro guy, he mentioned that on the older mag style ballasts, you could hook up multiple lamps to one ballast as long as total wattage remained at or less than rated wattage, say, 4 250w bulbs or 3 300w bulbs on a 1000w ballast. Of course, the question came up, can you do the same with a digital.
Could a person hook up two 300w bulbs to the 600w ballast (at 100% power) or 4 250w bulbs to the 1000w ballast?
Has anyone had any experience doing this, good or bad? Any opinions as to the consequences?
Thanks for any info.
While talking with my hydro guy, he mentioned that on the older mag style ballasts, you could hook up multiple lamps to one ballast as long as total wattage remained at or less than rated wattage, say, 4 250w bulbs or 3 300w bulbs on a 1000w ballast. Of course, the question came up, can you do the same with a digital.
Could a person hook up two 300w bulbs to the 600w ballast (at 100% power) or 4 250w bulbs to the 1000w ballast?
Has anyone had any experience doing this, good or bad? Any opinions as to the consequences?
Thanks for any info.