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.
Can i put a 600 watt bulb in a 1000 watt ballast.
I was on ebay pricing 600 watt ballasts and i noticed on one of the 1000 watt ballasts that the dimmable amounts were in percentages.
I am sure that a 1000 watt dimmed to 500 watts 50 will fire a 600 watt bulb.
You can of course run a 600w hps bulb at a slightly higher wattage with the super lumens switch.
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.
You need to use a 250w bulb if you intend running your ballast at 250w a 400w bulb at 400w etc.
100 75 and 50.
You will need to use the 1000 watt bulbs in the fixture and yes you can dim it to the 600 watt setting.
For starters i do know that it s always best to run a bulb and ballast that belong together so lets get that debate out of the way lol.
If you have a 400w you can put a 430w in an hps ballast.
I just want to know why it doesn t work.
This however intrigued me.
Hi mate don t run a 600w bulb at 250w they the bulbs aren t designed to burn at that wattage.
The dimming does hurt the overall life of the bulbs in the long run but really 2 or 3 grows on a bulbs is about the max you want to really put on bulbs anyways.
Or digital ballast where they have a 1000w max and dimmable to 600w and 400w with the 1000w bulb.