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

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.

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

You will need to use the 1000 watt bulbs in the fixture and yes you can dim it to the 600 watt setting. A ballast can throw as much as 1000 watts but only when needed to the bulb controls that what dont all you get. Yes it will draw closer to the 600 watt usage then the 1000 watt max. Yes you can use a smaller watt bulb with a higher watt ballast your bulb will only use 600 watts it won t burn up.

Or digital ballast where they have a 1000w max and dimmable to 600w and 400w with the 1000w bulb. It produces much whiter light than when running on the 150 watt ballast but it still didn t blow up. 100 75 and 50. 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.

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. 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. I am sure that a 1000 watt dimmed to 500 watts 50 will fire a 600 watt bulb. 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.

The bulb didn t immediately blow. If you have a 400w you can put a 430w in an hps ballast. Ive witnessed it done by accident like i told all you and for 2 months it ran 24 7 and no arcs no burnt bulbs or nothing and then for the 2nd time i met this guy and he ran a 600 watter in a 1000 watter look at it for your own eyes. I then put a 150 watt hps bulb on the same 1000 watt ballast.