MH bulb in HPS fixture?

Can i use a MH bulb in a HPS fixture and ballast? I have a conversion bulb but i think it died this morning.

the quick answer is no, it will ultimately burn out your bulb at best, and will catch fire at worst.

however, you can remove the ignitor, and you're left with a mh ballast. the ignitor is the only difference between mh and hps ballasts.

kp

i wouldn't try. these things shouldn't be toy with unleast you want to lite your house up.

i thought with a conversion bulb it was possible am i wrong?

yes but he said his conversion bulb died this morning

oh my bad i mis read it.....

cheers

I have a 1000hps and for veg use the solarmax1 bulb which has a 400mh and a 600hps in the same bulb and then switch to a 1000hps bulb to finish. Unreal veg bulb.

wow. do you use that in the same ballast?????? and how much was that bulb may i ask and.... how the hell.... weirdness... but i like..

ANSI code on bulb is m58. i looked it up at hid source and it says it`s a 250 watt MH bulb. not anything about it being a conversion bulb. the bulb will glow for a very long time when the timer goes on but will not start for over an hour. so i put in the hps bulb and that works fine. but i want to continue my vegging with a more blue spectrum.

how good was that solar max bulb? do you think you would have got better results just usinf a 1000 mh ?

since i didnt have any conversion bulb, so i just added in a few daylight cfls... just an idea...

It is best to use both spectrums through the veg stage if possible and this bulb does both.. about $180.00 us but worth it.. you need a 1000hps to run it... do a search solarmax1 and check it out.

thanks man ... yea a bit pricey but if you get results... right?

Impressive.......... wish i went with the 1000 watt when i bought a ballast system now...

"The SolarMax1 - 1000 Watt Bulb incorporates the best of HPS and Metal Halide in one bulb. The 1000 Watt SolarMax 1 bulb runs 400W Metal Halide and 600W HPS in one bulb providing full spectrum lighting for your plants. Runs on 1000W HPS Ballast and emits 100,000 Lumens. "