CFL Ballast question

[lemonyfresh]

Currently I have a 24" two bulb fl I am vegging with. I also posses a hand-me-down hps ballast that has gone bad. I really do not want to have it repaired again since this would be the second repair, I would be very apprehensive about a repaired repair. The first repair was due to a lightning strike. Also, when the hps was working the temp would stay above 90 degrees consistently and my grow area will not allow proper ventilation for the heat output. Hence the fl lighting.

I was reading the CFL lighting 101 thread and noticed that some CFLs will fit into an hps ballast. Is this true or did I miss-read? If I can purchase a CFL to fit my hps ballast (Although I am not positive the ballast it good.) That would be ideal. If am I correct in assuming that I can remove the ballast from it's housing sans the igniter and transformer (I may have miss-named the components). Then I can rewire the three ballast wires directly to the wall plug and hopefully have a working CFL ballast. Is this possible or am I way off base?

Thanks!

 

[lemonyfresh]

I have a buddy with some extra cfl's. I will check with him before I hit the store. Thanks for you time!

 

[Nelson Mutz]

CFL's do not need a ballast; their ballast is inside the base of the bulb. IMO, this is one of the advantages of using CFL's vs. tube floro's, although I would like to try out some T-5 lights.

Nelson