Quote Originally Posted by kushman45
Exactly what psycho described it saves on equipment you can have 2 flower rooms running with 1 ballast the flipflop flips the HPS Bulbs over using relay or contactors with a timer. You need a special type relay that can handle at least the inrush or inductive load at startup for 1000 watt HPS lamps. I know I could build this but i dont know what type of relay the retailers use. And I dont want to spend 400 dollars when this could be built for 150 to 200.................
What do you do about the igniters and capacitors? They discharged to light the first bulb so how are you going to recharge them to light the second bulb? That is what the 5 min between lighting is for to cycle the charge to ignite the bulb.