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Old 12-07-2007, 10:33 AM
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^ yea

its not a conversion ballast.

yesterday I plugged the 400 mh in and fired it up (with the 1000 w hps ballast) it seemded fine, took bout 4 seconds to light up but then got really bright. the 1000 w hps worked fine right after it too.

am I just getting lucky here? if I leave it on for 18/6 or 24/7 could something bad happen?

I even asked jeeves and he didnt know!

what confuses me is,

isnt the whole point of the ballast to turn irregular ac/dc current and make its current a steady constant flow of 1000 watts?

so wouldnt the 400 w bulb burst? or would it just be really bright.

seeds should be here soon and I dont want to run a the mh if it could fail


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