Electronic ballasts
Electronic ballasts according to growshops.fr, your online horticultural adviser.
Growshops.fr presents you through its vast online catalog, a wide choice of electronic ballasts, in its horticultural lamp department and the sub-category Transformer - ballast. Also called digital, electronic ballasts appeared in Europe more than a decade ago.
Generally speaking, whether electronic or ferromagnetic, a ballast is a compact unit, a form of electrical transformer, essential for installing a HPS (High Pressure Sodium) or MH (Metal Halide) lighting kit. More expensive than the magnetic ballasts widely used in the past, electronic ballasts provide their users with many undeniable and visible advantages on the productivity of the plants that benefit from them. In particular, because of their great modularity and their recognized reliability, electronic ballasts have supplanted their magnetic counterparts, which today appear obsolete and distressing in their operation and their electrical connections
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| Digistar ballast E-Series 400W Gavita |
Electronic transformer 1000 W Nanolux No Fan |
Electronic ballast Lumatek 1000W + Dimmer |
What are the major characteristics of electronic ballasts, according to growshops.fr?
First of all, electronic ballasts present a real simplicity of electrical connections very appreciable, during their installations and their maintenance (necessarily) regular. Indeed, concerning the connections of the ballast to the sector and the ballast to the reflector socket), these electrical connections are made through IEC plugs, in Plug and Play.
This type of IEC connection (plug and socket) is even becoming commonplace on many reflectors available on the market, such as those made by CIS Products. Somewhat less energy-consuming than the same magnetic models, electronic ballasts have the particularity of having a dimmer, a lighting variator, which can be used to limit or increase the light intensity. Particularly practical, electronic ballasts can thus meet the growing photosynthetic needs of plants, thanks to this famous dimmer.
In addition, electronic ballasts benefit from a resin shielding which annihilates the harmful propagation of magnetic interference on household appliances and human beings, unlike the old generations of HPS - MH transformers.
What are the technical advantages provided by electronic ballasts, according to growshops.fr?
First of all, electronic ballasts are compatible with almost all MH or HPS bulbs available on the market. Now, some brands specialized in lighting such as SuperPlantGavita or Lumatek even offer bulbs with a reinforced structure that are specifically developed to work with electronic ballasts.
However, for the integrity of the MH or HPS bulbs, it is necessary to ensure a reasonable use of the dimmer equipped with electronic ballasts, compared to the nature and the power of the bulb supplied. In fact, during the growth phases, the use of MH bulbs of the same power (or lower) than the digital ballast in question is authorized but the position of the dimmer must correspond and remain imperatively at the nominal power of the MH bulb used.
For example: if a 600 W electronic ballast is used with a 400 W MH bulb, the dimmer will be exclusively on the "400 W" position, without any possibility of flux variations and thus avoiding damage to the installed bulb.
On the other hand, only when usingHPS bulbs, the various intensities offered by the dimmer of an electronic ballast make sense and can be used, provided that the initial luminous flux of the bulb is not pushed beyond 110% of its original capacity.
For example, if a 600 W electronic ballast is used with a 400 W HPS bulb, the dimmer can be set to the maximum "400 W" position (or even "440 W"), but the other lower power ranges can still be used, without fear of premature degradation of the HPS bulb thus limited.
In contrast to conventional magnetic ballasts, electronic ballasts guarantee a total restitution of the luminous flux, even up to 110% of the initial power of the HPS bulb installed (Superlumens function). In fact, contrary to the unfortunate findings of their magnetic counterparts, electronic ballasts do not suffer from light loss, depending on the distance of the cable connecting the ballast to the E40 socket of the reflector.
Special bulbs for electronic ballasts
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| HPS bulb Lumatek Pro 600W 400V | Bulb HPS 400W Gavita |
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