Don't Want To Knock Lumatek, But WOW......

[krunchbubble]

had a brand new 1000w Lumatek With The Super Lumens....

after 1 day, it blew, my veg light was off this morning.....

pops my fuses and smells burnt, its toast.....

Been running 10 Quantums for about 5 years now, NOT ONE PROBLEM!!

going to see about exchanging for a new Quantum instead of replacing this POS.....

 

[Green Supreme]

No way, a problem with Lumatek. Unheard of teehee. Bring on the cheerleaders. Peace GS

 

[NashvilleN]

I've had issues with several 600w lumateks. It's the only brand I've used. Are Quantums as pretty? I dig purple...

 

[krunchbubble]

just blown away.....

i was under the impression they were among the best digitals.....

quantums always from now on...

 

[Iron_Lion]

I'd check the wiring just to be on the safe side.

 

[Mia]

I was at the store the other day they have this new brand called solis tek. they have all these cool features like remote controls and stuff. You can program them to do all kinds of shit.
http://www.solis-tek.com/
Five year warranty. I've never used them.
I run quantum 600 for veg and galaxy 1000 for flower.
I had a bad quantum. No bad galaxys yet.

 

[krunchbubble]

I'd check the wiring just to be on the safe side.

had a magnetic ballast on the same plug two days ago and its back on there now, works perfectly....

 

[AlexTrebek]

krunch you didn't read the disclaimer when you brought back that Lumatek from the SPCA, you have to play it bob marley it's first 48 hr's of usage time or else it could feel sad and implode!

 

[vonforne]

I have gone with the Phantoms.......super silent and absolutely no problems.

http://www.hydrofarm.com/pb_detail.php?itemid=11014

 

[gingerale]

I have been using Lumatek ballasts for years, and the only time I had any fail was because of improper grounding. Both of these were replaced by Lumatek under warranty with brand new units. (No, I didn't fess up my stupidity....) When correctly wired, they are super reliable and trouble free, and boy do they ever put out a lot of lumens.

 

[Phillthy]

never had an issue. sucks that you experienced one so soon.

 

[ShroomDr]

remote controls and stuff. You can program them to do all kinds of shit.
http://www.solis-tek.com/
Five year warranty. I've never used them.
I run quantum 600 for veg and galaxy 1000 for flower.
I had a bad quantum. No bad galaxys yet.

I briefly glanced their site, seems promising.

If they had a ballast that was a self contained flip flop, they would gain a costumer in me.

Seems as easy as adding another 'port' for a second cord, and a little bit of their software programing.

 

[megayields]

I know I will get flamed for this but....I've been running magnetics for 3 years, yes I should have replaced the capcitors BUT they are rock solid reliable?? (shrug) I do run digitals on my 600's and will be upgrading to digitals on the 1kers....someday lol!

 

[krunchbubble]

I know I will get flamed for this but....I've been running magnetics for 3 years, yes I should have replaced the capcitors BUT they are rock solid reliable?? (shrug) I do run digitals on my 600's and will be upgrading to digitals on the 1kers....someday lol!

fuck it, i run mostly magnetic ballasts too.....

i was just at my hydro shop and they have 2 digital 600 watt, brand new systems with harvestmaster hoods for $150 fucking each!!!

 

[Guest 150314]

had a lumatek 600 go after two months same deal smelled like burnt plastic wouldnt fire up and tripped the breaker, the rest of my ballasts were no name digitals and work just fine

 

[unclefishstick]

heck,i just bought 3 new hydrofarm magnetic ballast and they rock! i ran my last hydrofarm ballast for 8 years before i had any problems....right after i dropped it,still fired up just fine,just buzzed like crazy,never ran hot,just noisy....the new ones are pretty quiet,of course not as quiet as a digi,but at least i can fix these myself...

 

[<~Hades~>]

Like Von said the phantoms are the Best .

were you rocking them 240 volt.>?

 

[Scottish Research]

Well wouldn't you know that I just bought a Lumatek 600... That fucker better work!

Got it in a non-med state off Craigslist.


R.Fortune

 

[Aksala]

I've had my 1000w lumatek dimmable for about 2 years or so and never had a problem...

 

[Mia]

I briefly glanced their site, seems promising.

If they had a ballast that was a self contained flip flop, they would gain a costumer in me.

Seems as easy as adding another 'port' for a second cord, and a little bit of their software programing.

I agree a flip flop would be pretty sick. For my set up personally i don't know how much of an advantage it would be, but it'd definitely be nice to double up with one ballast.

And yeah Krunch I've been seeing these package deals popping up all over the place too. Seems like pricing is getting better.