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Originally Posted by thelastpirate
I wonder why they say it won't work? I am burning MH bulbs with my HPS ballast, with no apparent problems. In fact, when I got my lights (Salvaged commercial high bay lights) I got some MH ballasts, but the ones that were clearly marked as HPS had MH bulbs in them, so the factory was obviously burning MH bulbs in an HPS fixture/ballast.
In every myth/urban legend, there is a grain of truth, a causative reason for the belief. How and why did this one get spread around?
Any electricians/electrical engineers out there? Will doing so shorten the ballast life? Or shorten bulb life? Will it create a "worm hole" that will suck my grow room into another dimension? (I can't have THAT!!)
Just something to chew on.
TLP
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i know the hps balast will burn a mh but will a mh balast burn a hps i have heard the it had something to do with ignition of the bulb to get it started is the key well apparently they sell conversion bulbs for both
Buy Eye Ultra Ace 400 Watt HPS Conversion Bulbs Here! i though that they only made the one but i am still pretty sure that if its not a conversion bulb only a mh in a hps balast will wrk