Ipower ballast ??

Im pretty late but i guess its better late than never right ? Anyways the ipower kit is the exact same one i am using for my first tent run. Its pretty good quality and works good i would say. I have the 1000w kit. One thing i have to mention about ballast is that it is not good to disconnect and reconnect it too often and recommend getting a timer. If it gets manually disconnected too often it will only turn on the ballast and not the bulb, which i thought was a bit weird but i did some research and read that its possible that it needs to be disconnected for 5 minutes so it can reset and turn the bulb on. Other than that the products are of good quality. Anyways happy growing everyone

Since my last nightmare scenario I have switched over to 1000w Apollo set as a back and since the replacement for my 400w crapping out was a 1000w unit I feel I'm way ahead anyways.

Most interesting thing is that I basically solved future problems by running a perpetual grow, I wasn't aware that just unplugging the light from the ballast while you're between grows was a problem till I read here first. Guess now any more problems would be because of different issues.

Well I bought a Ipower 600 lasted about one hour then burnt up. I am sending it back they did send me a return slip.. I will take the replacement but never will I buy another .

I bought the Ipower 600w cool tube. I power ballast, mh bulb, hps bulb. Everything seem good so far had it up and running two weeks. Ballast doesn't feel hot, only a little warm

Seen alot of hate for the amazon brands so i steered clear of those, local shop managed to beat the price too. ( 175 for a 400w powersun magnetic ballast , gull wing reflector. The mogul and the hps bulb). I haven't heard anything about powersun though. Anyone have any experiences with them ? & This is the first post I've seen where everyone wasn't completely hating ipower good to see the cheaper stuff isn't complete garbage

i've been running a 600 watt i power ballast and a 400 watt i power ballast for 2 years, day in, day out, with no problems whatsoever.
haven't even burned out a bulb, i change them after one year, keep them for when i do burn one out....if it ever happens.
90% of the ballasts out there use the same internal components, from the same manufacturers....so until you take a significant step up, financially, they're all the same....pretty much literally. may have different cases for the components, but the guts are all the same....
so you're gambling on getting a good set of components....guess i got lucky with mine....

Cut out a little filter from something like maybe an air conditioner filter and tape it over the air intake on the ballast so it doesn't suck up a bunch of dust. It should make it last longer. Also keep it as cool as possible.

Roger A. Shrubber said:

i've been running a 600 watt i power ballast and a 400 watt i power ballast for 2 years, day in, day out, with no problems whatsoever.
haven't even burned out a bulb, i change them after one year, keep them for when i do burn one out....if it ever happens.
90% of the ballasts out there use the same internal components, from the same manufacturers....so until you take a significant step up, financially, they're all the same....pretty much literally. may have different cases for the components, but the guts are all the same....
so you're gambling on getting a good set of components....guess i got lucky with mine....

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im going on 4 years with mine. multiple bulbs. Never had a single issue. I had an Apollo 600 before that. gave out after 2.5 years. Pretty good quality for what you pay for. Im sure better brands are just a bit better and put out a slight higher PAR, but for $100? cant beat it.

600 apollo on sale on ebay for 64.99 not a bad deal free shipping... My replacement I power is working fine now been over two months.