I'm making the switcheroo from 1,000 watt magnetic ballast blooming to using 600 watts electronic ballasts. Any specific, experience-derived recommendations out there for 600 watt bloom bulbs when using electronic ballasts?
I didn't care for how the Lumatek played with my digital ballast, had some firing problems. I prefer Plantmax, but was hella pissed when I saw what was once a $12 bulb is now approaching $30. If your digi is switchable, you can use MH, but there aren't a lot of 600W MH bulbs out there, choices are limited.
I can't speak to the higher cost brands & bulbs, too cheap.
I think you'll be using 600W no matter what, I'm not sure what the ballast itself can do in terms of saving you the doe-ray-mee on the power consumption.
I missed the ship-out from 100bulbs. I'm getting the fucking Plusrites. Should have read just a wee bit more about them before ordering.
Sunmaster is what I've used with magnetic ballasts. They are good, but I did get one that formed an off-axis hot spot, causing it to fail early. These were their 1,000 watt HPS bulbs.
Sunmaster is what I've used with magnetic ballasts. They are good, but I did get one that formed an off-axis hot spot, causing it to fail early. These were their 1,000 watt HPS bulbs.
This lamp that formed the hot spot. Do you know if you purchased a positional bulb? We carry an assortment of horizontal and vertical lamps. This lamp could of been positioned improperly causing the issue.