Need help with wiring on workhorse

[DJ88]

Tony,

I have taken two 75W VHO's and run them off of one Workhorse 5(128W total) no problem.

To verify this I just hooked up a wkhse 5 and an Icecap430 and tested them at 3" distance with my PAR sensor.

First is the 430's output. This is done with two lamps. It's the only measurement I could take as you can't hook up only one lamp or single wires on an Icecap.

330.

Next are the measurements for the Wkhse5 single lamp with 1-4 wires

*note the funny numbers I had earlier were due to a lose connection. My apologies guys. The numbers make more sense now*

1 wire - 130
2 wires - 150
3 wires - 204
4 wires - 230

Wkhse5 two lamp with 2 & 4 wires(one or two into each lamp)

2 wires - 164
4 wires - 220

Take that as you want. To me the fulham drawings are a recommended hook up. By running 4 wires into one lamp all you are doing is over driving it if the ballast is much larger than the lamp. One wire does the same as three. I retested this a couple of times to verify that I wasnt' messed up with this.

HTH

[ 05 July 2002, 13:59: Message edited by: DJ88 ]