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Ballast for T5's

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Topic: Ballast for T5's

Posted By: superman1981
Subject: Ballast for T5's
Date Posted: September 15 2008 at 4:41pm

It appears that one side of my ballast for my 60" T5 fixture it out. Currently I have two 65w PC's running off a Workhorse 5 ballast. Could I use this ballast to run one 60" T5 instead? I've found that even though the 2 PC's put out more watts than one T5, they just don't seem to have near the power... my corals like T5's not PC's...

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Posted By: Crazy Tarzan
Date Posted: September 15 2008 at 4:49pm

as long as the wattage is the same tim, it should work great. Also pc's do better with a relfector as well.

Look up the fulham website and it shows wiring diagrams for the different ballast and bulb combinations.

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Posted By: snoyce
Date Posted: September 15 2008 at 4:54pm

according to fulham.com you can run 1 80W T5HO bulb on a workhorse 5 ballast