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    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?
    Bonez87x Reviewed by Bonez87x on . 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? Rating: 5
    \"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.\" ~ Hunter S. Thompson


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    HPS Lights

    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.

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    HPS Lights

    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...
    \"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.\" ~ Hunter S. Thompson


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    HPS Lights

    Quote 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?
    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.

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    HPS Lights

    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.
    \"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.\" ~ Hunter S. Thompson


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