Ebay Metal Halide deal....good? or Bad?

Discussion in 'Metal Halide Aquarium Lighting' started by skennelly, Oct 3, 2005.

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  1. skennelly

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    Cooltouch has a pretty good reputation and the price seems fair. I personally prefer having two separate ballasts so that when one fails, I can send just that unit in for repair.
     
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  4. Matt Rogers

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    What size are those sockets? THey look larger than my medium mogul which may limit your bulb/k choices.
     
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    The setup is for mogul base metal halide bulbs, with what looks to be a probe start ballast. :)
    Here is a chart that shows you Nine different manufacturer's of aquarium bulbs, what type of ballast is required and what type of base the bulb has.
    I would check with the seller to see if it a standard magnetic ballast? If it is then look in the chart for 250 watt SE bulbs that require an ansi m58 ballast. I counted 17 bulbs to choose from the 9 manufacturer's. Not to make it too complicated but.. If the ballast is a pulse start ansi m138 then this is even better because for the most part you can use all the special SE pulse start bulbs and the standard SE probe start bulbs on this type of ballast. 2 more bulbs for a total of 19 different types of 250 watt aquarium metal halide bulbs.
    As far as the price goes.. I think it is ok ::) Not great, but not bad either.

    http://www.aquarium-lighting-guide.com/metal-halide-ansi

    Let me know if I can complicate things any further.

    Jim
     
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