Accidentally ran a 600w bulb on a 1000w ballast!!! did i hurt the ballast?

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ganjaplantaa

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I let a friend use my light and I forgot that he put in a 600w bulb. When I got it back I accidentally ran the 600w bulb in my 1000w ballast for 6 hours. The bulb didnt blow but could it have hurt my ballast?
 
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Lemon king

Lemon king

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shit and i thought the grow mags with 100 pages of crap and 1 paragraph of useful info was bad, now there making accounts, is this a job??

if so i could easily get paid to sit on riu every day i defo chat enough shit myself anyways!!! lol

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as said above you will be fine, a 400w running on a 600w will over time shorten the bulb life, compared to normal and mr cervantes says it will fuck up the power supply or summin.....but for only 6 hrs id say your golden!!
 
topfuel29

topfuel29

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ganjaplantaa said:
I let a friend use my light and I forgot that he put in a 600w bulb. When I got it back I accidentally ran the 600w bulb in my 1000w ballast for 6 hours. The bulb didnt blow but could it have hurt my ballast?
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You didn't damage the ballast. You damage the bulb.
Possible fire or explosion on start up from the increased voltage to fire the bulb.
You don't want to use bulbs under rated for the power supply.
If your gonna do that. Then take a hot bath with this tonight.

 
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ganjaplantaa

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Thanks Lemon king. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I figured the bulb would be toast. I just hope I didnt mess up the ballast. I knew I should have double checked before I fired her up.[/FONT]
 
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