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Originally Posted by daniella3d
Do a search on Odeassy fixture as some are known to be a fire hazard.
I would go with www.fishneedit.com instead as they get much better review and so far have not set fire to any house.
I read that quite a few Odeassy ballast cought fire or produced smoke and the owner was home and took care of it in time. I almost bought one and after reading about the fire hazard I decided to go with a Coralife instead. My next one is going to be the very nice fixture from fishneedit.com |
This is true with the older fixtures. The newer fixtures have electronic ballasts that have the same reliablity as most name brand ballasts. I know of a few people that run the newer (at least 5 years now) ballasts without problem.
That being said I think with higher quality ballasts you get better, brighter colours out of your bulbs. A single mh should be enough over a 36" especially with 4 t5's aswell. I own the last generation of this fixture and its been good to me and I would buy again.