Brand new very affordable Metal Hallide Pendent Set ups

marcingo · #1 10-27-2006, 01:53 AM

Realized these bulbs arent for North America. Sorry.

StirCrazy · #2 10-27-2006, 02:03 AM

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

kellehar · #3 10-27-2006, 02:13 AM

has to be 210 or below for north america

marcingo · #4 10-27-2006, 02:31 AM

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

Thanks.

Coderad · #5 10-27-2006, 03:08 AM

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.

StirCrazy · #6 10-27-2006, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coderad

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