ECP
Well-Known Member
Well, I woke up this morning to find my grow room in the dark. Looks like my generic ballast bit the bullet for the second time this grow. I have one plant 2 weeks away from harvest and one monster plant I was just putting in to flowering. I need to get this fixed asap, but I also don't want to fix this crap again. I'm getting really fed up with how unstable my lighting is. My grow location has a somewhat unstable flow of electricity. By this, I mean that the power goes out probably once or twice a week for 1-10 seconds. This is definitely the cause of death for my last two ballasts, so I pose this question: What is a reliable, 600 watt ballast that doesn't need time to cool down between starting the light/can withstand my unstable power. I'm looking at the purple Lumateks at the moment. Because I need to get this fixed right away, as my only source of backup light is 42watt CFLs, I'm probably going to have to run to my local Hydro store, and pay the 33% markup, and get the 600w lumatek for $250 and the bulb for another $100. Do I have any other options? Will this option even work? Advice would be greatly appreciated.