Hey guys I’m looking at these 600hps magnetic ballasts…I’m curious where do you get the cords and mogul sockets?? I’m use to ones i wire up myself…bare ballasts and then run all cords myself including the power cord and socket…any help would be appreciated. They pretty much run any bulb…
Also i don’t remember controlers back in the day…we built our own and used relays…you guys are spoiled now a days. So simple just run a dryer cord at 220 and your lite up like the first of July.
I’d like to shop Canada so in Canada would be nice…whole kits with socket hood/reflector??? I was look on Amazon at 600 IPOWER HPS and decided not…I’m kinda old school. Grow what you know…if LED weren’t so confusing…perhaps and expensive plus if anything breaks…screwed. Fry an igniter just put and new one in…simple.
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Never mind found it…took long enough
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Personally, after going from magnetic HPS ballasts to digital HPS ballasts I would not go back. They cost a little more but are more efficient, can run multiple powers of bulb (250/400/600) and can overpower a bulb so you can run at 660W.
On top of that they are much cooler and much quieter and much smaller. They are no harder to use than a magnetic one either.
If you don’t care about efficiency, size, utility or noise then fair enough go for a magnetic one. But I wouldn’t.
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You by chance have a lumii Black?
also @bandit306 why would you want to wire it all up yourself when they come pre built?
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Very possibly. Sounds right.
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I just ask because when I used a standard magnetic ballast ages back it cost far less than the digital ballast. I also had it weird the digi ballasts cost the same to run regardless of what wattage you turn the dial to. I sent Lumii two E-mails to receive no response on why it costs the same to run it on 250 upto 660. So personally if I was to go back to HPS I wouldn’t use my lumii digital ballast again.
They are more efficient though and you can see a visible difference in boosting a 600W to 660W just expensive to run but hps so 
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You did swap out the bulb instead of trying to run a 600W at 250W didn’t you?
Maybe they operate like a variac and draw the same power no matter the output.
I only run 600W anyway and I don’t use the other settings, except in winter to get a bit more heat from running 660W.
I just got the cheapest digital ballasts from my local shop. Not sure what they are.
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I only had a 400 and a 600 so couldn’t say but you could see the bulb dimming down when changing power. Either one was the same usage though never saw any difference
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I using this one,
https://lumatek-lighting.com/2018/02/14/lumatek-400w-240v/
and I have to say that the differences are visible.
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It’s just as likely I have this type. I will have a look tomorrow or sunday.
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Ya I finally got a couple digis about a year ago and they are really nice.
When they first came out we avoided them because the light cables weren’t shielded properly and the em radiation they threw off would mess with your neighbours AM radio and cordless phones lol
I have no experience with digital ballasts but from what I’ve read not all bulbs will work with them also from my research magnetic ballasts are more money by the time you buy everything like sockets bulbs (some quality bulbs are as much as the ballasts) reflectors cords. People say digital don’t last as long and are prone to failure…less easy to repair. It seems everyone is running digital ballasts and growing fems…I’m considering buying one of each and seeing for myself. the price of those digital cant be beat…120 on amazon everything included.
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