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Dee2711 · 07-20-2010, 09:09 AM

I apologise if this slightly off topic. I understand what Brian was saying about the ballast controlling the lamp.
But, an ergoline engineer once told me that the ballast normally has a leeway of roughly 10%, as in, say you had a 200w ballast running a 225w lamp then the lamp would normally be running at 220w. Is this correct? Or would the lamp still only be getting 200w?

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Dee2711 Join Date: Oct 16 2009 Location: Ireland Posts: 141 Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 15	Re: Replacing lamps with higher watts, is that ok? I apologise if this slightly off topic. I understand what Brian was saying about the ballast controlling the lamp. But, an ergoline engineer once told me that the ballast normally has a leeway of roughly 10%, as in, say you had a 200w ballast running a 225w lamp then the lamp would normally be running at 220w. Is this correct? Or would the lamp still only be getting 200w?