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I hope someone with knowledge in this area can help me out. I just bought a few 1000 watt solistek ballasts for my new place.
Because of limited power I'll have to mix and match watts during certain stages of growth to avoid overloading my breaker panel.
I believe I have read somewhere in this forum that dimming a 1000 watt bulb to anything less such as 600 is a bad idea because by doing so, its not functioning the way it was design to. In other words, its better to use a bulb that was meant to run at 600 watts with the dimmable feature than it is with a 1K bulb.
Is there any truth in this?
Also will I be drawing less amps on this kind of ballast if its dimmed down from 1k which is suppose to draw 4.5 in the owners manual.
Because of limited power I'll have to mix and match watts during certain stages of growth to avoid overloading my breaker panel.
I believe I have read somewhere in this forum that dimming a 1000 watt bulb to anything less such as 600 is a bad idea because by doing so, its not functioning the way it was design to. In other words, its better to use a bulb that was meant to run at 600 watts with the dimmable feature than it is with a 1K bulb.
Is there any truth in this?
Also will I be drawing less amps on this kind of ballast if its dimmed down from 1k which is suppose to draw 4.5 in the owners manual.