what just happened?

is it possible for a defected hps bulb fried my ballast? just switched from mh today. light hasn't been on for more than a few hours. unplugged to let cool. gonna try to restart it in about 20

does your ballast have an HPS/MH switch on it? if you forget to change it over you can fry your ballast doing that.

socomplicated said:

is it possible for a defected hps bulb fried my ballast? just switched from mh today. light hasn't been on for more than a few hours. unplugged to let cool. gonna try to restart it in about 20

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Whats the problem? The ballast is getting hot? ??????????????????

no it doesn't work aftr switching it to hps bulb. has no switch on the ballast. mh bulbs won't even work now. FUCK

is it new or 10 years old?

If its not a switchable ballast you can't just put another type of bulb in. It is either mh, hps, or switchable. If its MH that is all you can put in, if its hps thats all you can put in!!! Soo if you tried to put an HPS bulb into you MH light it could have damaged it after running for a few hours.

no its new and its a 600 w digital mh/hps. someone asked if it had a switch.. I swaped out the fuse located on the ballast under the pug. it jus keeps blowing the new fuses.. pos. just bought 30 days ago. that's what I get for buyin ebay junk. I hope this doesn't FUCK my grow. everything is gonna strech all to hell

so what do you guys think? am I scewed? how bad is it gonna b if I'm missing my light for almost half of flower? can't believe this is happening. everything was going so well.. AFTER BALLAST TOOK A SHIT BEFORE

I guess there's only one way to find out.

If that's 1x600w left in there then huddle the plants together.

600w can do at max 4ft x 4ft. Ideally around 3.5x3.5.

Get them closer together and sort out the ballast issue with supplier. In the meantime you could look for a cheap magnetic to get you through a bit later into flowering.




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Like Jonda said just get your lights together as best you can and regroup. You can "tread water" for a week or so with CFLs with no negative impacts, just try to keep your light schedule about the same.

Chill. It will be fine.