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.
Can i put a 600 watt bulb in a 1000 watt ballast.
Or digital ballast where they have a 1000w max and dimmable to 600w and 400w with the 1000w bulb.
I am sure that a 1000 watt dimmed to 500 watts 50 will fire a 600 watt bulb.
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.
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.
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.
You will need to use the 1000 watt bulbs in the fixture and yes you can dim it to the 600 watt setting.
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.
This however intrigued me.
If you have a 400w you can put a 430w in an hps 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.
Hi mate don t run a 600w bulb at 250w they the bulbs aren t designed to burn at that wattage.