Dual Voltage Ballast?

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Hello, Everyone

I'm trying to decide on which HID system to purchase. One of the systems I'm considering has a "dual voltage" feature. It appears if I get this system I wont have to specifiy if I want 120V. or 240V. or open the box to rewire. It comes with the 120V. cord and the 240V. cord is available for extra money.

Although I explained it nicely above I have no idea what this "dual voltage" means. I got the information from the web site. Can someone explain this to me further? This is a XtraSun Convertible System 400 Watts.
 
could you post a link from the web site where you got the info...it would help..but I would ask why not buy the voltage that you have in house? Good luck take care and be safe
 
Thanks for replying.

The link is below:

hxxp://www.ecogrow.com/index.cfm/product/834/mid/7/nid/28/home.html

It did cross my mind that it may have had something to do with the voltage in my home. I'm sure its 120v here.
 
you have 240v service. in the breaker panel you have two bus bars that run each side of your panel. if you read each side to ground you get 120, but when you read between them you get 240. your oven breaker as well as your dryer breaker are usually 240v.

anyhoo... you can reduce the amp load on any circuit by upping the voltage, which would alow you to run roughly twice the amount of wattage at 240v than you could at 120v, at a reduced wire size.

the technology behind hid lighting was developed for commercial/industrial lighting and almost all of these situations use 277/480v circuitry because when your building you can have more lights for less $$$.

just run it at 120v and dont sweat it your not losing any $$$ at 120v.
a watt is a watt and that is what your meter reads and the power co. charges you for.
 
Also, a 240V breaker Service is usually a 30 to 50 amp pull, which means anywaere from twice to 10 times the Kilowhat Hours. A BIGGER ELECTRICITY BILL.....
 
the 30 - 50 ampa is the breakers rating, it has nothing to do with a bigger bill.

a 400w ballast consumes 400 watts

400w/120v=3.33333 amps
400w/240v=1.66666 amps

the meter is still reading a 400w draw no matter the voltage but you could only run 4 4oow ballasts on a 20 a circuit at 120v while you could run 9 4oow ballasts at 240v thats why ballasts come on different voltage types
 
All ballasts that I have ever torn apart or replaced parts in were "dual wattage" ballasts, in that they could be wired for either 120 or 240. Unless you have 240 coming into your grow room and want to use it for the light, get the 120.
 
All ballasts are dual voltage. Its just in how they are wired. Some are wired to do both. For example I have a lumn's 'n' bloomz 600 watt ballast. It has two receptacles and only one can be active at a time because of a little blocker they have. On receptacle is wired for 120 one is wired for 240. If you had 240 wired in your house trust me you would know about it.
 
Its easy. If you want to plug it in the wall use set up for 120v. If you want to have to hard wire it in your house, use it for set up for 240v. Changing it is easy. Just follow the directions
 

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