We are in a rural location, and are subject to more power surges as a result. Will this product work for us, or do we need magnetic ballasts?
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I don't think you will need anything like that. We live in Florida which has a lot of lightning strikes and power surges. Haven't had any problems. This is a good product.
1437702
I live in a rural area in FL and have some power surges too, none of the power surges here have caused a problem with this ballast so far, it's been about 7 months, good luck.
1437703
Michael, I'm not an electrician, so I can't answer that question with authority. We live in the suburbs. Our house was designed for energy savings when I was built 30 years, so we have fluorescent fixtures throughout the house. I can tell I installed these electronic ballasts in both our bathrooms and they did perfect. They are lighter weight than the magnetic ballasts, so they're easier to install. The lights come on instantly and the ballasts are very quiet. Hope that helps.
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The Robertson Ballast is an electronic ballast which has worked very well for me. I installed two myself and it was an easy project. I don't live in the country but in a semi-rural county serviced by an EMC. We have had zero problems with the Robertson Ballast and it performs better than the old ballast by starting quicker and functioning in colder temperatures.
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follow up! I did some more research- NOPE! you will have to get the Generic (or Generac clone)outside panel surge protector to protect the generator.The Levitron protector is good for the residence, shops, garages,. I have several on this farm. Good luck. OT
2064935
No, you have to get a socket with a 3 prong plug that is compatible to the ballast, which usually has a 15ft cord. This socket is made for mogul base cfl's.
1050053
I use this switch in my workshop with cheap shop lights. Those lights have two 40 Watt fluorescent lights and an ordinary ballast. The switch always works.
1474630
No sir. It will blow the bulb. The smallest bulb you can use is a 400watt. The ballast is dimmable. It does 100%, 75%, and 50% power. 50% of 600 is 300. I have used a 400watt with it and it did fine. Good luck, great grows.
360359
looks after RF hum, but not really a surge protector. try one of the fur man products for that application. or trip lite works well too.
1322121
They will work for low voltage applications. Being outdoors they have to be enclosed in the waterproof box or fixture as they themselves are not waterproof. I used them for few months and love them. No more exposed wires while changing fixtures or ballasts. Make sure to rise the locking arms compete 90 degrees as it's kind of a hard push and not intuitive that it's so hard.
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I TRIED to advise someone earlier that capacitative loads such as electronic ballasts for LEDs & compact-fluors would be PROBLEMATIC, so nobody should be surprised. The only way I can see to make such a thing work is to do one of the work-arounds I have tried and succeeded with: 1. Use on a circuit, such as a ceiling fan/lamp fixture, where the capacitative and inductive loads help "cancel" each other out... i.e., screw-in the fancy bulb all the way and set the fan to at least low speed at all times. THEN, the fan will always move a bit (but will NEVER attain full-speed performance at any mechanical setting), but the e-ballasted bulb will at least turn and OFF decisively. THIS is the problem I'm currently struggling with as I dread the approach of Summer, where I won't be able to "feed" my current-hungry ceiling fan thru that current-limiting 6696 wall-switch.... The other workaround yopu could try is to put a low-wattage incandescent bulb (resistive load) in as part of the usual combination of bulbs in the ceiling-fixture. Currently (no pun intended), I use none of the fancy bulbs and rely solely upon the li'l 20W tungsten bulb in the whole ceiling fixture-- works GREAT... dimming/set and everything. I've also found that one or so fancy bulbs will also operate "properly" in the ceiling-fan fixture WHEN and only when the incandescent bulb is also operating. The e-ballast will cause the fancy bulb to sputter-- even as the incandescent is dimming-- but at least it will get to full-on or full-off in a second or two. Such is not possible with the fancy bulb(s) comprising the total electric load on the e-ballast alone. It's a bad, caveman-ish design; the older versions (with the 4-batt remotes) were less difficult... bulb-sputter and never a full-turn-off without the fan being at least on "low," but at least they would allow FULL-speed operation of the fan.... I'm working on the problem... thinking of a dual-switch solution for the fan only... so stay tuned....
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Terry, this. Ballast works perfectly with two tubes of 40 W, it is also very cheap.
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Yep, should work fine. I'm no engineer, so I don't know if running with only one light will cause wear on the ballast or anything like that. You could always get 2 different lights (like one 'moon' light, or something like that) to tweak the spectrum and/or reduce the light output, if that's what you are trying to do.
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Ipower makes digital ballasts. So I would assume they would work just fine with any digital ballast. I've heard of people having problems using hortilux with digital. The bulbs are well packaged. Meaning I've received three 1000w bulbs that were not broken on arrival. Fast shipping. I'd say go for it.
922949
You'd have to check the ratings on the ballast but as long as it's 240 Volts and below 16 amps it should be fine.
1482417
Yes it's ok just use the harness that comes with lights.ballast take full power at startup n much less when the lights get full heat about 20-30 seconds later. If only one light turns on the first time you need better power input to the ballast.
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This bulb will not work with an electronic ballast, only a magnetic HPS. This is a conversion bulb from HPS to MH.
65340
Absolutely Not. No it does not work with any of the new digital or electronic ballasts. It only works with an old school ANSI 52 Magnetic Ballast.
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Yes it will work...All ballasts are the same set up ...just different wattage
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Get Leviton PR150-1LW 500W instruction Sheet searching Goggle and Read under specification. It states Not intended for use with electronic ballasts. Intended for use with rapid start fluorescent or incandescent lighting only. At top of instruction sheet it states 400VA-120VAC, 60Hz (Fluorescent - RAPID START MAGNETIC BALLASTS ONLY) All I can offer is to read the instruction sheet and follow it.