Can You Put A 600 Watt Bulb In A 1000 Watt Ballast

A ballast can throw as much as 1000 watts but only when needed to the bulb controls that what dont all you get.

Can you put a 600 watt bulb in a 1000 watt ballast.

Yes it will draw closer to the 600 watt usage then the 1000 watt max. The bulb completes the circuit and makes the ballast run off 400 watts. I then put a 150 watt hps bulb on the same 1000 watt ballast. I ve been using a 400 watt hps bulb on a 1000 watt hps ballast for about a week now.

I was told that this works with ballasts like my 1000w de phantom and 1000w de sunsystem ballasts possibly with my 1000w nanolux but that isn t tested yet. Are you guys just saying all this cuz it sounds crazy. It produces much whiter light than when running on the 150 watt ballast but it still didn t blow up. Or digital ballast where they have a 1000w max and dimmable to 600w and 400w with the 1000w bulb.

I was on ebay pricing 600 watt ballasts and i noticed on one of the 1000 watt ballasts that the dimmable amounts were in percentages. You will need to use the 1000 watt bulbs in the fixture and yes you can dim it to the 600 watt setting. The dimming does hurt the overall life of the bulbs in the long run but really 2 or 3 grows on a bulbs is about the max you want to really put on bulbs anyways. But to put a 1000w into a 600w ballast pry wont work or could blow up in your face or burn your house down if you left it running.

I was told that a 1000 watt de cmh bulb would work just fine with a 1000 watt de hps mh ballast so long as the ballast is set to 100 1000 watts. If you have a 400w you can put a 430w in an hps ballast. 100 75 and 50. The bulb didn t immediately blow.