![]() ![]() Pulse start my ass! Look to the leaders in the industry and you will see quite clearly that the marketing hype of Solis Tek is for those that are just getting into growing. And even there, they are scrambling to get a piece of that marketshare and failing. But they don't because they don't compare to next gen lighting. If Solis Tek was nearly as awesome as they claim, then almost every single commercial grow out there would be sporting them. You seem to be stuck in the past with your choice in lighting tech and your grow will reflect that. But I am not here to tell you what to do, after all it is your gear, your grow, and your money. I challenge you to find any of the successful and COMPLETE grows using Solis Tek. You say you cannot find anyone that has ever had a bad grow with Solis Tek. Solis Tek has made bullshit claim after bullshit claim and I have no problem calling them out on it. ![]() SE lamps lose almost everything when you dial them down. DE Full spectrum lamps have the same full spectrum when they are dialed down and when they are on overdrive. The whole thing that has blown over your head is that you are missing the critical part of the whole thing. I think I'm just going to get 2 600w ballasts and be able to upgrade to DE if I decide to go that route. ![]() Hope this helps answer your question! SolisTek Staff This is due to our lamps (pulse start) and ballasts being tuned for the same operating frequency thus resulting in higher efficiency, performance, and longevity. If you are using our ballast and lamp you can dim the lamp down without sacrificing any spectralshift, unfortunately we cannot guarantee that with any other combination but our own. When a 1000w ballast is changed to the 600w or 400w setting it does not step down the operational lamp voltage, this goes across the board for all ballasts and lamps as that's how they were designed. 600w/400w lamps/ballasts were designed with an operation voltage of 125v to the lamp. While you may operate a 600w lamp on the 1000w ballast on the 600w setting, the voltage differences would play more of a role in accelerated degradation as compared to wattage differences.Īll 1000w lamps/ballasts were created with a operational voltage of 250v to the lamp (this is the output power from the ballast, not input power). In this case dimming down a 1000w lamp to600w/400w would be more efficient choice as the lamp would be driven by the same output voltage even though it is being under driven by wattage. We believe in letting the customers know the pros and cons of dimming as they are there for luxury and convenience but not true efficiency. Since I wasn't sure if this was a good idea, I emailed ST and this is the repy I got (just got this today) On the issue of dimming, I considered buying 2 ST 1000w ballasts and running 600w lamps on the 600w setting. The ST ballasts will also allow me to upgrade to 600w DE if I decide to go that route. 2 600's will do a much better job for my space. I'm currently still running 2 400w CMH bulbs in magnetic ballasts and it's really not getting the job done. I've been looking for a couple of 600w ballasts myself and have done a LOT of reading, other than the one post above, I can't find anyone saying anything bad about the Solis Tek ballasts.
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