Hi everyone. I want to test the MV lamps fastly with an incandescent light, but I don't know how to calculate the wattage acording the MV lamp wattage. Please tell me a tip for calculate the lamp wattage acording to the MV or MH lamp wattage   .

Don't know about Incandescent as ballast, but :

80W Mercury lamp can be ballasted by 2x Fluorescent 36W chokess in parallel

I think (allthough have not seen it referenced anywhere) 125W lamp can be ballasted by 3x 36W chokes



MH lamps are more picky and i am not sure you will be able to ballast a MH with an Incandescent at all

Hi everyone. I want to test the MV lamps fastly with an incandescent light, but I don't know how to calculate the wattage acording the MV lamp wattage. Please tell me a tip for calculate the lamp wattage acording to the MV or MH lamp wattage   .

Try to search through the forums here, this topic was discussed through already a few times, including step by step manual (with links to the required graphs) to determine the correct ballasting lamp or combination for a given discharge spec.

Try to search through the forums here, this topic was discussed through already a few times, including step by step manual (with links to the required graphs) to determine the correct ballasting lamp or combination for a given discharge spec.

Thanks  ! Do you have any link for it? 

E.g. the last post showsa rough estimate, ithas to be fine tuned by experiments.

E.g. the last post showsa rough estimate, ithas to be fine tuned by experiments.

Thanks, I will buy some generic MV lamps for experiment with it    .