If you wanted to use the hood for a different ballast, could you use it for a 400w bulb? What is the minimum bulb range for the socket ?
880124
The socket is hard wired to the hood, so while possible to retrofit for a 400 watt bulb/ballast, it would be cheaper and easier to just buy the 400 watt kit. Hope that helps.
2268818
Yes it will work...All ballasts are the same set up ...just different wattage
949357
I bought two hoods for a standard 55 gallon aquarium. It should also work on a 20/29 high tank as well. At work so don't have specs. Nice hood but bulbs they give you are not as bright as I thought .
1404990
The halogen bulb receptacle will accept the LED unit. The question is whether you have enough space to accommodate the other parts, ie. the LED device has a small fan that screws into the back of the LED lamp. you also need space for the ballast. The difference in brilliance is worth the effort. I don't know the amperage but I suspect that it's considerably lower
1687929
I would say no, the hood only works with regular style bulbs (coil type, old school incandescent) there is not a lot of room in the socket area. I have 2 of these on each of my turtle tanks both with a zoo med uvb coil type bulb and a 60 watt incandescent for heat and it works great.
1328197
I think you have to use a 1000 watt bulb and dial the ballast down to 50 percent to get 500 watts. You can always adjust it up to 100 percent at 1000 watts when needed. They have 3 settings. Don't think you can use a lesser rated bulb in a more powerful ballast but I am not for sure.
2176219
If it's the same ballast as the kit with two bulbs, hood, ballast and cords. Yes. But this bulb is more for a hps only type ballast. Maybe it's cheaper to buy a metal halide bulb
1328195
Doesn't work that way buddy. You should do some research before you burn your place down. Don't try to use a lower than recommended wattage bulb because the power flow will not be consistent on this unit. Even if you reduce the ballast output of say, a 1000 watt ballast to 50%, you still shouldn't use a 600 watt bulb there. It will fire up, but your bulb could eventually explode. Just because it doesn't happen immediately doesn't mean it wont happen eventually. You could use a higher watt bulb with a lower power ballast in a pinch, but it is a waste of money and resources.
1400892
Typically street legal vehicles using halogen lights use around 40 for low beam and 60 for high. So your ballast pulls less. If Ur using a bi xenon hid balast only uses 35 on both doesn't change your amp only changes the position of the bulb. So an hid kit if installed correctly will use way less power
457399
I have used this hood for more than one digital/electronic ballast, works great with my 600w Quantum and cheap Chinese digital 600w
1404991
Shouldn't have a problem with the install. Put a set in about 2 months ago and they still work great. I believe when I installed them it said 22w on each of the ballasts, website says 50w per set. Either way it's less than the 35 watts that each halogen bulb uses.
2248449
Yep, should work fine. I'm no engineer, so I don't know if running with only one light will cause wear on the ballast or anything like that. You could always get 2 different lights (like one 'moon' light, or something like that) to tweak the spectrum and/or reduce the light output, if that's what you are trying to do.
1557978
No. This must be used in conjunction with a ballast to power the light hood. This ballast will usually be powered by a 220v plug. Some ballasts are 110V but they won't provide enough power to utilize a fixture, such as this one. This fixture is for HPS or Metal Halide bulbs and usually between 600 and 1000 watts.
1415336
the reason for the ballast is to convert DC into AC. So if you're replacing one, as long as it's for a 35w hid bulb, it'll work perfectly.
998822
It depends on the bulb. I have large spotlight type lights and used the 410W. 310W would be for a smaller bulb.
1910923
There is room for a standard 100 W bulb. So, if the fluorescent is no larger than a regular bulb, it will fit. I don't see where there would be any issues with the starting power draw characteristics of a fluorescent lamp.
286457
Once the wattage is the same on the ballast as the bulb. But you can have a 1000 watt ballast and it will work with a 600 watt bulb once the ballast is capable of being turned down to 600 watts. I hope this help