Samwell Seed Well
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"ballast is designed to run" at the setting it is designed to run at(that includes the bulb at he end providing resistance) learn to read that could be a real issue with your misconceptions, so if you have the wrong bulb in a ballast not designed to run it you will be under loading or overloading your ballast both bad, a bulb, designed to run at a certain wattage in a ballast that runs less watts, will make cause the ballast to overload running hard to make 400 watts and that equals blown ballast and hopefully not a burnt down house
the variance that you expect within a circuit is normal house fluctuation so if you had a meter on your plugs you could see up to 20% swings, swings being the important word to think about, not constant running at watts that re too high, thats why you never load a circuit more than 80% of its breaker, but the circuit created after your ballast takes 120v or 240v and turns it into 250 400 600 or 1000watts is a lot less tolerable of constant variance, watts being a measurement of energy passing through circuit thats all. A measurement! and it is tied to the proper resistance being present in the circuit , that means the bulb silly
figure it out, and stop endangering other growers with your half assed advise
my expertise with inverter style magnetic ballast and digital invert style AC converters are a fundamental part of the welding industry, i also have welding degrees as well as automotive degrees and worked in light to medium construction where we did basic electrical install on house light circuits and plugs for add on, not to mention the 3 yrs of designing and creating my own electrical circuits and wiring . . . . opps forgot to add the most important part
and this makes me no expert but what i say is true, and im sure there are some of you that know even more than i , i really know to basic fundamental the smallest amount to know to give basic advise, i am no expert but if these basic ideas of how a circuit works are not understood you should not do any of your own wiring without having someone there who is qualified to green light the work, even im guilty of this at times, someone just died burnt to death in there sleep, hopefully long dead before that, nearby and it is not a risk worth taking
the variance that you expect within a circuit is normal house fluctuation so if you had a meter on your plugs you could see up to 20% swings, swings being the important word to think about, not constant running at watts that re too high, thats why you never load a circuit more than 80% of its breaker, but the circuit created after your ballast takes 120v or 240v and turns it into 250 400 600 or 1000watts is a lot less tolerable of constant variance, watts being a measurement of energy passing through circuit thats all. A measurement! and it is tied to the proper resistance being present in the circuit , that means the bulb silly
figure it out, and stop endangering other growers with your half assed advise
my expertise with inverter style magnetic ballast and digital invert style AC converters are a fundamental part of the welding industry, i also have welding degrees as well as automotive degrees and worked in light to medium construction where we did basic electrical install on house light circuits and plugs for add on, not to mention the 3 yrs of designing and creating my own electrical circuits and wiring . . . . opps forgot to add the most important part
and this makes me no expert but what i say is true, and im sure there are some of you that know even more than i , i really know to basic fundamental the smallest amount to know to give basic advise, i am no expert but if these basic ideas of how a circuit works are not understood you should not do any of your own wiring without having someone there who is qualified to green light the work, even im guilty of this at times, someone just died burnt to death in there sleep, hopefully long dead before that, nearby and it is not a risk worth taking
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