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 need to use a 250w bulb if you intend running your ballast at 250w a 400w bulb at 400w etc. Or digital ballast where they have a 1000w max and dimmable to 600w and 400w with the 1000w bulb. 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.

There has got to be a simple explanation as to whether it is or isnt safe to do s0up. 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. You will need to use the 1000 watt bulbs in the fixture and yes you can dim it to the 600 watt setting. If you have a 400w you can put a 430w in an hps ballast.

You can of course run a 600w hps bulb at a slightly higher wattage with the super lumens switch. I just want to know why it doesn t work. 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. 100 75 and 50.

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. 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.