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Ballasts & Digital Ballasts
- A good ballast will get the best out of your lamp and ensure it a longer life. If your budget allows, then we would always recommend upgrading to digital. The cost differential is not that great, and if you are considering switching between lamps during the growth cycle, then it’s about the same price to buy a digital dimmable ballast.With digital, changing from a 400w blue lamp to a 600w red lamp is as easy as flicking a switch...
- but you would have to buy two compact ballasts to get the same benefit – one for the red and one for the blue. All of our Electronic Dimmable Ballasts include soft-start technology and a fast start-up. Choosing between them is a matter of brand preference and price. The Maxibright is very competitive and offers solid performance. We use it in most of our digital grow light kits.
- Gavita is a name highly regarded in the horticulture industry and their Dimmable Digistar Ballasts are constructed using top quality components. Lumatek ballasts are recommended by experts from major universities, government research facilities and throughout the horticulture industry, Lumatek is the clear market leader and our best-selling brand.
- Lumatek Dimmable Ballasts also feature the unique Super Lumen boost which can increase your lamp output by 10%. Lumatek Digital Ballasts are now even more competitively priced, meaning that they offer exceptional value for money.
The Sunmaster Digital FX 600W ballast is a premium quality piece of kit that features a 4-way dimmer switch to give you complete control over the power output to your plants. The ballast will power 250W, 400W or 600W HPS or Metal Halide bulbs and includes a boost mode that increases output to 660W which is really beneficial during the flowering/fruiting phase. Be sure to pair the correct lamp to ...
After several years of research and testing, Maxibright Digilight ballasts are now available to help prolong equipment lifespan and provide cool and quiet running. Instead of using a copper coil or magnetic resistance to ignite the lamps, digital ballasts use microprocessors that avoid the 6.2A ‘spike’ of ignition in compact ballasts. The ‘soft start’ of the Maxibright Digi...
Maxibright compact ballasts are built to bring you the most cost effective and reliable ballast to date. This magnetic ballast is encased in resin to ensure silent running, as well as to guard against the risks of overheating, so despite running slightly warmer than other models these ballasts are totally safe. Suitable for use with metal halide and sodium HID lamps, they come complete with an IEC...
Lumatek digital ballasts get an upgrade with their new dimmable ballasts to allow greater flexibility in your growing area while reducing the cost of buying multiple ballasts. Ideal for when you want to avoid the heat of the summer months, if you need a boost for flowering or you want to establish young plants, these Lumateks are excellent value at less than the price of two compact ballasts with ...
