Capulator
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Solis Tek sells a 'digital splitter' for $70, it's a bit cheaper elsewhere in the 'net. If you like Hydrofarm connectors, Sunpulse has a 'magnetic' splitter. Honestly, I think the only difference between them is plugs and price.
What these do is split the power coming from your thousand watt ballast into two cords, so you can run a 600W bulb on each. Originally designed to allow thousand watt ballasts to run 600W bulbs- @500W apiece.
The new Gavita el ballast has an overboost feature, allowing the user to deliver up to 1150 watts. Split, this would mean 575 watts to each of two 400V el 600W bulbs, or basically perfect. This is also the only way I could think of to get the new 400V technology to go vertical without fuckin' with fixtures.
Internet pricing for the whole deal should be right around $600- not bad for two 600W lights, right?
You should ask @whazzup if you can split the power on the gavita ballast. It might now be as easy as this. Hopefully it is, but I would still ask.
Are you sure that the line set to the bulb is even different? It looks the same to me.
The SE 600w 400v uses an e39 socket. 2 hots and a ground.
My guess is that the ballasts that run 120/240 just switch the leg. Neutral to Hot.
Is this an HPS ballast? If so you run an ignitor in series also? JKI'm pretty sure that the el 400V stuff works the same as the 250V bulbs, they both run the same mogul socket and cords.
The way splitters work is by running the two bulbs in series instead of in parallel. That's how they run two 600W bulbs on 1000W. I'm just going to run el bulbs at 1150W/2 = 575W ea.
Is this an HPS ballast? If so you run an ignitor in series also? JK
Have they changed the design with electronic ballasts so hps do not use an ignitor? JK
Call them. The reason I was asking about the ignitor is it is set off to fire one bulb,now you want it to fire off two bulbs.I am old school and never owned a dig ballast long enough to tear one apart to see how they are firing off hps. JKIn another thread, Capulator mentioned that Gavita sets their '600W' ballasts to actually run at 660W. It's there any way to verify this?
Call them. The reason I was asking about the ignitor is it is set off to fire one bulb,now you want it to fire off two bulbs.I am old school and never owned a dig ballast long enough to tear one apart to see how they are firing off hps. JK
I like this. Vertical gardening, using available space.
Mylar on walls above the trellis and overhead on the ceiling, FTW!
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