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Ballast question


mporange

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I´m planing of hooking some T5´s tubes over my 20 gal.

 

i can get a 2 x 24 watt ballast witch would give me a total of 48 watts of T5

 

But i would like to mount 3 x 24watt tubes.

 

I can also get a 2 x 36 ballast. = 72 watt .

 

Question. can I hook 3 x 24 watt tubes up to a 2 x36 ballast.

 

The 3 tubes needs 72 watt total, and the ballast delivers a total of 72 watt

 

Or would the ballast designed for 2 tubes not be able to "fire"

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Depends on your household power.. I *believe* you can actually wire 2 T5s in series if your household input is 220VAC (I'm not sure what is used in Denmark) but some fancy footwork needs to be done.

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