best ballast with lumenbright mini wide

Hungriee · Apr 27, 2010

I'm thinking about purchasing the lumenbright mini wide []Aquarium Specialty to light my 36x36x24 cube.

What ballast would be the best to go w/ a 250W radium bulb?

1) Reflector - Lumenbright Mini Wide
2) Ballast - ?
3) Bulb Choice - 250W (probably radium)

Anything else I'm missing to make the light set up work? I'm new to MH.

Troylee · Apr 27, 2010

a hqi m80 ballast.... such as pfo if you can find it or a bluewave....

Hungriee · Apr 27, 2010

seems like they are discontinued.

iani · Apr 27, 2010

Hamilton still makes hqi ballasts.

Troylee · Apr 27, 2010

I know it sucks... You would have to find a used one somewhere.. Most of the ballast are m138 which is a pulse start and will fire radiums but not to there full potential like a m80 I don't know if anyone is really selling the m80s any more... It's a shame man they were the best ballasts out IMO. I just picked up a Used dual pfo 250w for 60$ "score" :)