Brand new very affordable Metal Hallide Pendent Set ups
 

Realized these bulbs arent for North America. Sorry.

if you look a little harder these ballasts state "Vollage:220-250v" a lot of people do not have the resource or the capability to supply 220 power to there tank. so if they bought one it would be useless to them.

steve

has to be 210 or below for north america

See I dont know much about the requirements for north america good thing you guys caught that. lol

Thanks.

Everyone has 120 and 240volts in there house in North America.
To get 240 you need to use a 2 pole breaker, and you both parts of the phase. You will have 2 "hot" wires and then 1 neutral and 1 ground.
You would have to run a 3wire to your tank to power the light thats all.

and have room in your breaker box for the double breaker you will need. Personaly I have the room, and if you are worried about how much space you have in the fuse pannel for a big tank 240 is the way to go as you could run 15 amp 240 into a remote box, has two plugs off that as 240 and then split it down to about 20 amps worth of 120.

what I did in the old house was run a 15 amp 240 to my tank where I split it directly into two 15 amp runs of 120.

Steve

So the seller messaged me back and told me he also carries a north american version with a 110V ballast. Would this be able to run in North america? Also what do you guys think about the bulbs themselves are they strong enough to give good light to a 55 gal tank(21 inches high 4 ft long) if I were to have 2 pendents?

He says he only has 70W and 150W so thats why Im asking if I could pretty much grow anything with these lights. Also arent the double ended HQI bulbs supposed to be better than the single ended bulbs? That is both for efficiency(lower power usage), longer life and brighter light?

isn't it 110 and 220?

I guess we can run 220 but on the previous setup he showed me the bulbs were rated for 220-250. Anyway the new one is 110. So Im thinking that should be ok for NA but I still dont know if 2 150 watt HQI bulbs will be good enough. Also the seller says they are marine bulbs but I dont know. Some on the board say it more looks like a household setup.

nope it is 120 and 240.. some times people call it 110, I have even heard of 115.

Steve