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Would it be ok If I started flower with the MH bulb?? What would be the disadvantages of this? Still need to sort out this freaking HPS shyte though!!! This sux...

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Hey there. I got a 400 watt metal halide lamp with an hps conversion bulb. Or maybe it was an hps with a metal halide conversion bulb. Can't remember now.

Anyways, I found that if I turn the light off, then turn it back on within 5 minutes, the hps bulb won't light up most of the time. Sometimes it will, but only after 10+ minutes of being turned on. Seriously, I will look directly at the bulb, and there is a tiny spot inside it that is glowing, but it takes at least 10 minutes to even start lighting up the rest of the way, when it lights up at all.

Works flawlessly when left uninterrupted on the timer.

May sound dumb, but maybe make sure that the ballast hasn't been turned on and off in the last 20 minutes or so. Then try the bulb. I doubt that that's the problem, but if you haven't checked, maybe you ought to.

I can't speak much on flowering with mh, but I've read of others flowering their plants with them, reporting looser, flufflier buds. I don't remember anything being said about a loss of potency, though.

Good luck.

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Thats called a hot re-strike. Very bad for the bulb. You should always wait at least 15 minutes between refires to allow the bulb too cool. Also when you fire the bulb you should always allow it too reach full temp before shutting it off. Not following these rules will shorten the life of your bulbs.

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You can start flowering with MH. You can even finish with MH, buds will just be fluffy. If you have your HPS going for at least the last month of flower that will fatten your buds up nicely.

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well I want to get this working properly!!! need my HPS to work.. Im gonna start the 12/12 cycle just so that i cant get the males out and transfer to bigger pots asap...

Guys please help.. how does the wiring of the ballast look? Is it wired correctly??


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Thanks, man. I just learned something pretty valuable.

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cowboylogic is 100% correct, through hot restrike your diminishing your lamps lumen output and life span. In my opinion is 15 min not enough i would give my lamps minimum 30 min. Thats the info ive become researching hps lamps, could only imagine that the same appleis for MH bulbs. IMO, greetz syze

It's to hard to see how it's wired, is there a way to take it out of the box or untangle the wires to make it more visible?

It is hard to tell from the pictures but I am not seeing a ground? But you say the MH works, so it should be grounded. Have you compared he socket ends of both bulbs? Maybe for some reason the HPS is not making contact in the mogal socket.

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