Shopping for 400W MH electronic ballasts

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  1. GoToSleep

    GoToSleep Torch Coral

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    Coralvue, Galaxy, or IceCap? Any real difference between these electronic MH ballasts? My LFS says he can provide me a little better service on the Coralviews since he can swap them out locally if there's a warrenty issue instead of me having to ship them back to the manufacturer. Also the Coralvue's have the option of built in dimming (I realize that this is not full 0-100% dimming).


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    GoToSleep, Aug 21, 2009
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  2. Dr.Fragenstein

    Dr.Fragenstein Panda Puffer

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    They are all good ballasts... IC has a great rep for customer service and SLS also has good warranties on their items.
    The CV ballasts are nice with the dimmable feature same with the ability to overdrive them as well. Problem is I do not believe CV has a dimmable DUAL ballast so you would then have to buy more ballasts...
     
    Dr.Fragenstein, Aug 22, 2009
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  3. GoToSleep

    GoToSleep Torch Coral

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    Thanks for the feedback.

    I'm not sure that any of them have dual 400W ballasts, I know that I have seen dual 250W's.
     
    GoToSleep, Aug 22, 2009
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