? What?????????? It literally says HID light controller on the description
What is the benefit of it as opposed to just hooking in to a regular outlet?
For one, a regular outlet can't handle anything close to those amps. It's also, IMO, a throwback to HID lighting and high wattage use. It seems to me, to be something that is out of date. It's basically just a large single switch.
So basically instead of me breaking up 8 lights into 3 or 4 circuit breakers I could just plug into this and use 1 breaker????
No, you need to feed it with a LARGE line... at least 80 amp sized wire and breaker, some people barely have that for the whole house. It's for warehouse people.
We have 2, each going into a 60 amp breaker, not using all the outlets on the autopilot, It has a 2 prong plug.
