HQI ballast?

well I have a 70w metal halide pendant and an electronic ballast.
It's close to time for me to get a new bulb for it but as i was searching a lot of bulbs say HQI. Does this mean i need a certain type of ballast? or is it just (better? fancy?).

 

I believe HQI typically refers to DE bulbs now a days. Im pretty sure they also mean run on an electronic ballast but I remember reading somewhere that magnetic ballasts can run them too now.

 

well if thats the case thats good news!

i have an electronic ballast and a DE light socket.

 

Technically a DE is not a 100% substitute for HQI. HQI is a certain type of bulb.

Not all DE's are HQI, and there are definitely SE HQI bulbs in other wattages.


Unfortunately, so may have wrongly used the HQI and DE term interchangeably so many do believe that HQI is just another way to say DE.


The good news is that I don't think I have ever seen a true HQI 70w DE, so any bulb that is a 70w DE will more than likely work.

HTH

 

hmm ok...
for future refrences though if i ever found a HQI 70w DE would i be able to run it, i guess is my question.

 

with an electronic ballast. yes

 

thanks for the help everyone