Burn-in period for Hortilux MH?

[bharv2003]

How long does it take to "burn-in" a Hortilux 1000w MH? I haven't seen anything about this before and now my plants are left in the dark...literally

bharv2003 Reviewed by bharv2003 on 09-08-2009. Burn-in period for Hortilux MH? How long does it take to "burn-in" a Hortilux 1000w MH? I haven't seen anything about this before and now my plants are left in the dark...literally Rating: 5

[irydyum]

What do you mean by burn in? Did you get a new light and hook it up and the light won't come on? I'm a little confused here.

I have never had my HID's take time to burn in or anything, I put em in the socket and turn em on and voila, light.

[bharv2003]

It isn't working...back to the hydro store. I read online that MH sometimes have burn-in periods. Thanks

[bharv2003]

Okay so my ballast is working fine with a hps but it won't start a mh....is there some easy way to fix this? Everytime it tries to start up it seems like it just can't quite get it all the way burning and it shorts out...so frustrating since I have little clones in there ready to get the light....NOW

[cigarettes42]

have you used this bulb before in your ballast? what kind of ballast do you have?

[bharv2003]

I took the bulb back and they checked it...worked fine there of course. They are saying it must be the ballast. It works fine with the hps bulb but it can't seem to stay going with the MH. It seems like it keeps resetting itself too cause it keeps trying to restart every like 30 seconds.

Any thoughts? Open the ballast up and check it out?

[bharv2003]

Sorry...brand-new lumatek 1000w digital 120v

[irydyum]

If the ballast is new it should be warrantied. Sounds strange that it ignites the hps, I'm not too familiar with digital ballasts, but I know the "old school" type have replaceable components in them. Capacitors and such. Where's all the digital ballast experts??

[irydyum]

Found the info sheet, warranty info is on page 2. Looks like a 3 year replacement guarantee from Lumatek.

http://www.bghydro.com/mmbgh/Others/...fo%20Sheet.pdf

[headshake]

are you referring to the warm-up time? if so ~5 minutes or so.

did they check the bulb on a lumatek ballast?

what brand bulb was it? there is known issues with some hortilux bulbs, specifically the Hortilux blue MH and the 1000W lumatek ballasts.


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