Will 400 watt hortilux blue work on a digital ballast?

i am interested in the hortilux blue 400 watt MH but am discouraged because some retailers claim that it wont fire on a digital ballast.i went directly to the hortilux website and found nothing about ballast compatibility.Does anyone use hortilux blue on there digital ballast?

the bulb is the "daylight"MH not the regular hortilux metal halide

its a pulse strike metal halide i had a post on here for a 250 watt one made by GE they probably have a 400w one tho. yes it will fire in digital ballast it is same design as digilux, hortilux blue. just google pulse strike metal halide 400w t15

i dont think its a pulse start.i cant find anything in regards to the hortilux blue on a digital ballast.has anyone used them 1st hand on a digital ballast

no one uses this bulb on a digital ballast? .this guy alphawolf has no idea what type of bulb im talkin about because hortilux blue mh is a probe-start. come on a little help here

I had problems with my 1000watt $200 bulb, got the same story from retailers, said fuck it and run regular MH and HPS. Now The problems have stopped(so far) and my MH bulbs are $80.

what kind of problems did u have caveman?

It would come on but never get bright, sometimes. That's the worst when stuff wont work only sometimes. Hydro store guy said it was the digital ballast, maybe, so I bought a new magnetic ballast for the bulb. After 7 months it would not get bright again, so I took it back to the store and the guy said he'd send it back to the company to see if they want to give me another bulb(They need to analyze it to determine the problem). I also had a bunch iof problems with dual-arc bulbs, samem kind of bullshit.
So I eventually concluded that If I really wanted to try to provide a complete spectrum I should just run multiple bulbs of different colors. So far the bulb problems have been eliminated.

your veg room in your profile shows a 400 watt hortilux blue or is that just a regular mh?

Those bulbs are designed to work with magnetic. It probably will work but id want to get the most out of that bulb by running it proper because that is a bad ass and expensive bulbs.

hortilux works fine on my 600w hydofarm digital ballast

the one bulb i've blown so far was a blue eye hortilux in my galaxy digital ballast.. the bulb was only like a month or two old when it went too, i was not a happy camper to say the least..
i've since gone with either digilux bulbs, or more recently i have switched to sunpulse mh's, which you can buy in various k ratings, from like 3k all the way up to 10k, and you just use the correct k for the right phase of growth..
i just ran these in my last grow, mh's from seed to harvest, and simply fell in love with them.. pricey, but no more so than say the blue eye hortilux's..

thx for the help guys.++ REP for everyone

I have used a 400 watt hortilux blue on a 400 watt lumatek ballast no problem. I ran it for 2 crops then replaced it with a digilux bulb just to ensure i was getting maximum output, i still have the hortilux bulb just encase the digilux bulb burns out.

You should be fine. I always keep my bulbs. Lower lumina(old) bulbs are better then no light