Just wondering if anyone has bought or used the new Quantum adjustable ballast ???

I bought me one a few weeks ago and only got to use at the very end stage of my last grow. What little I used it, it seemed to perform flawlessly, the adjustable wattage helped me a TON with my heat issues, with some extra fans hopefully I can use it at the full 100% next grow coming up.

So far I am extremely pleased. I will update more in the near future when I start my next grow. Updates in about 4-5 weeks.

Very Good budman420.I saw the post that somebody made about and a link too.I checked it out and want to know how it dose on a veg to flower to harvest.Please do do a jorual on a grow with the light.It will help all. Peace

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Thank you tokecrazy, I will definitely start me a journal when I start my next grow. I am probally not going to use it for the vegg stage right now simply for the fact that I have to buy a "conversion" bulb because there is no 600W MH bulb made, I don't quite understand all the different bulbs right now and how come some watts come in a MH and some you have to get a conversion bulb to use for MH. I'm learning about all that right now,lol.

However, I did consider buying a 400W MH bulb and turning the dial down to 50% which is equivilant to a 250W light, I would try the 75% mode but it says the 75% mode is equivilant to a 430W light and not a 400W and I hate to blow a bulb, don't know if it would blow it or not. That dang 600W conversion bulb is almost $90.00 bucks and I just can't see paying that much for a bulb to vegg with.

I went from a 400W light to this 600W light and my temps shot way up, just for the fact I could turn it down a notch to the equivilant of a 430W light helped keep my temps down at the end of my last grow, now I'm in between grows and I am putting another 6" fan in the ceiling for the heat issue and hopefully should be able to run it full power for the next grow. We'll see in the next few weeks.

ok so wait maybe i have it wrong but i thought the idea as that you could dial down the wattage on the ballast but all while still using the same 1k bulb. Do i have it wrong?

I wonder why they dont make 600W MH bulbs..

They still make 600w M.H. bulbs. 600w was a pretty popular size a couple of years ago. Plenty of choices still out there, if you google'm.

just about every 600W bulb i see is a conversion bulb..


I did run across these though..

250w Fiber Optic metal halide

1500w metal halide bulb

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A buddy of mine has a 600w M.H. He got his last couple bulbs on E-bay, if that helps. Peace.

buying stuff on ebay sometimes creeps me out.. you never know who is really who ya know.

I'm all legit and stuff like that, but I still seem to have the old school mindset still (see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil.. S.T.F.U., etc)

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Originally Posted by P@ssw0rd ok so wait maybe i have it wrong but i thought the idea as that you could dial down the wattage on the ballast but all while still using the same 1k bulb. Do i have it wrong?

Never got a real answer here anyone care to clue me in?

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Sorry , if you don't change bulbs, it won't work right...

Ok, I guess that.....Well frankly that sucks! I thought i was like a dimmer switch or something. I mean not in how it actually works inside but in how you operate it. This somehow just doesn't live up to the image i had created for it in my mind. Even reading the description i didn't see where it said that. Glad i hadn't bought one, I woulda been bummed.

I'll see if I can explain it.It's a 1000 watt ballest.that said.At 100% it runs the full watts of the blub.At 75% it runs the 1000watt blub at 75% witch is 750 watts,at 50% it runs the 1000 watt blub at 500watts.You dont change the blub just the setting to get 50 ,75 ,100% of the out put of the blub.You dont change the blub cause you would have to have that watt blub for each setting.This is what a friend that's a electrician said this is a 1000 watt will run a 1000watt blub and that's all.400 watt balleast will run a 400 blub to it's fullest and will run a 600 or a 1000 watt blub,BUT only put out 400 watts of that blub.You can not run a lower watt blub in a higher watt ballest,it will blow the blub.The blubs 400 or 600 or 1000 will run at peak watts with the same ballest of watts.So the new gen ballest are good in a way that you can adjust them to your grow.Start out at 50% for a week and bump it up to 75 for a week and full blast there on as the grow go.It seams that this one would be good for indoor grows on the heat problems that come up in growing.If it's to hot cut back to 75% and that would lower the heat.The ballest sounds like a good deal even if you only run it at 75% all the time.As space go's you can adjust it to that space and still have the same ballest and blub and when you need more you flick of a switch and there's more.Hope I got it across on what I'am saying. Peace

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Ok thats what i thought. You run the same 1k bulb regardless and just dial down the output. Thats what i had originally thought.

Hey I just wanted to chime in as I have this ballast in 600w as well. I just found 600w metal halide bulbs (non-conversion) in ebay for 40 bucks shipped. I just bought one as I only had a hps bulb and as my plants are growing they are not growing as fast as they could be. The ballast states it can strike metal halide, so it should be good. Heres the link from where I got mine.
600 Watt Metal Halide Grow Light Bulb. Hydroponics. MH - eBay (item 130284156067 end time Apr-27-09 10:52:57 PDT)

Basically the switchable part is great in my opinion. I have used only this light and sprouted from seedlings. Im only anout a month from seeds so I still have a way to go. Like I said I just ordered a m/h bulb and will put it in when I get it to see how much faster it grows.

I also have a grasscity thread posting pics of my grow. i WAS JUST GOOGLEING 600W METAL HALIDDE AND FOUND THIS THREAD. Damn cap lock!

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Peace!

Well that's what plantlighting told me when I called.I didnt think you would have to change the blub for each setting.They wouldnt sell many of then. Peace

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I would like to know what this is called, where to get it and can ya get it in canada? I am at the point I need a bigger light. Was thinking of an electronic switchable ballast, a 600w, but if I could get a 1000w going, it would be perfect to dial it down if I didn't need it all, or switch to MH for veg. I have an mh 400w and a conversion bulb for flower, but I need to get a better depth coverage as I am not getting the hieght i want out of my girls. I have an 8 ft space and have only used 4 of it I guess, hieghtwise. I am having a hard time finding what I want in canada and importing is expensive. Our dollar is low too so it costs a ton just to buy the darn thing, then I get duty on top and shipping internationally. It ends up being about another half more at least for price. Really ticks me off, as it is cheaper to buy in the U.S. quite often Canadian made products and then we have to re-import them and pay through the nose for it....no offence meant to anyone.

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1. Is this spamming?, 1* hit on Google.
2. Toke, I gota disagree with you , bulbs don't work properly at less wattage.
3. Sorry, somehow we're all endorsers now.

na, not spam, just discussing new technology. I am sure if there where no HPS and some one brought that up, it could be considered spam too, but how else do we learn about this stuff?

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