wanted: MH lighting

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by adidas

What about these Ballasts? would these work? the price seems low. hmmm.
http://britelite.com/CdnShop/Publish....htm?cat40.htm

Yes they're fine. They're probably probe starts though. It's too bad they don't publish the ANSI code for those. Probe starts are M57, M58, M59 for 175W, 250W, 400W respectively; Pulse starts are M137/157 for 175W, M136/156 for 250W, M135/155 (I think) for 400W. Also there's HQI 250W pulse start M80 (uhh .. I think. I always get M80 and M81 mixed up. One is 250W and one is 150W).

Anyhow that's roughly the going rate for bare bones ballasts like that. Pulse-starts will cost a little more but not too much. You'll have to wire them up yourself and put them in a case yourself but that's not hard.

If you elect to go with pulse-starts make sure you get a long-distance ignitor .. the ones that come standard tend to be good for a ballast-to-lamp distance of 2', which is not very useful for our purposes.