Can I 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 i 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. Or digital ballast where they have a 1000w max and dimmable to 600w and 400w with the 1000w bulb. If you have a 400w you can put a 430w in an hps ballast. 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.

For starters i do know that it s always best to run a bulb and ballast that belong together so lets get that debate out of the way lol. Hi mate don t run a 600w bulb at 250w they the bulbs aren t designed to burn at that wattage. 100 75 and 50. Riu look on a lighter note my instincts tell me not to stick a 600w bulb in a 1000w ballast but i dont think twice about what wattage bulb im sticking into my desk lamp.

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. There has got to be a simple explanation as to whether it is or isnt safe to do s0up. 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 am sure that a 1000 watt dimmed to 500 watts 50 will fire a 600 watt bulb.

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. You can of course run a 600w hps bulb at a slightly higher wattage with the super lumens switch.