The bulb completes the circuit and makes the ballast run off 400 watts.
Can you put a 600 watt bulb in a 1000 watt 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.
Are you guys just saying all this cuz it sounds crazy.
The bulb didn t immediately blow.
Yes it will draw closer to the 600 watt usage then the 1000 watt max.
I then put a 150 watt hps bulb on the same 1000 watt ballast.
Or digital ballast where they have a 1000w max and dimmable to 600w and 400w with the 1000w bulb.
A ballast can throw as much as 1000 watts but only when needed to the bulb controls that what dont all you get.
I was told that this works with ballasts like my 1000w de phantom and 1000w de sunsystem ballasts possibly with my 1000w nanolux but that isn t tested yet.
If you have a 400w you can put a 430w in an hps ballast.
100 75 and 50.
It produces much whiter light than when running on the 150 watt ballast but it still didn t blow up.
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.
I am sure that a 1000 watt dimmed to 500 watts 50 will fire a 600 watt bulb.
You will need to use the 1000 watt bulbs in the fixture and yes you can dim it to the 600 watt setting.
I ve been using a 400 watt hps bulb on a 1000 watt hps ballast for about a week now.