HPS Lights

I bought 2 HPS Lights, 150w each... My question is about the warning on them. I have 2 silver bowl like light fixtures with clamps on them, both can do the 150w, but I dont know if its the correct kind the bulb warns about.

Any advice or ideas?

I don;t recommend the use of reflectors in most cases.

I would put them aside, if thats what they are, and see what i could do without them.

What about three in the cieling of a 15x15 foot out building? as in the whole building a grow room... its just an empty cold cement floor florida garage doing nothing... but smell like moth balls...

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Originally Posted by Bonez87x

I bought 2 HPS Lights, 150w each... My question is about the warning on them. I have 2 silver bowl like light fixtures with clamps on them, both can do the 150w, but I dont know if its the correct kind the bulb warns about.

Any advice or ideas?

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I doubt that the fixtures you have are built for an hps bulb. Sounds like they'll take up to a 150 watt incandescent which is normal for some of those types of fixtures. HPS reguires the use of a ballast and one that's rated specifically for the wattage of the bulb. In other words you can't use a 150 watt hps bulb with a 400 watt ballast and you can't use any incandescent with an hps ballast. They don't work together.

I see, so I need to purchase an HPS Ballast. Thank you for telling me this before the warning on the light bulb came true and having it blow up and shatter glass everywhere ^^

t.y.