LuXcore electronic selectable ballasts coming soon from Coralvue

By on Jul 12, 2011

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Coralvue just announced its new LuXcore digital electronic metal halide ballasts featuring variable wattage selection to give you more flexibility in your lighting. Similar to the Galaxy ballast, the new Coralvue LuXcore ballasts allow you to switch between wattage and drive modes. What is particularly interesting is the specific ability to overdrive certain types of lamps, as aquarists have done when pairing HQI ballasts with non-HQI lamps.

With two sizes, the new LuXcore ballast will handle both HQI and overdrive settings. The smaller LC-DIM-250B is a 150 to 250W allowing you to 150W, 175W, 250W, or 250W “Super Lumens” overdrive setting. The larger and more robust LC-DIM-400B is a 250 to 400W ballast that lets you select between 250W, 250W HQI, 400W, or 400W Super Lumens.

Highlighted features include:

  • Fast start-up, low heat, silent operation
  • More lumens generated per watt
  • Runs all mogul & double ended MH lamps
  • Wired with female receptacle
  • Resettable circuit breaker
  • Anodized extruded aluminum body
No word on pricing but you can expect the ballasts to come in similar to pricing or lower than the similar Galaxy ballasts.

[via Coralvue]

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  • Anonymous

    What’s a “metal halide”??

  • Anonymous

    Go out at night and look up from a street.. see that light hanging over the street from the curb, that is Metal halide (most likely, even that is changing to LEDs now).. something us old reefers used to use back in the day.. right after the wheel was invented but before LEDs. ;)

  • Jon Hahn

    I think exneo was kidding…

    Odd thing… the smaller doesn’t have a 25o watt HQI, but it does have a “super lumens” setting.  Then the larger doesn’t have a 400 watt HQI (430 HPS)?

  • Jon Hahn

    I think exneo was kidding…

    Odd thing… the smaller doesn’t have a 25o watt HQI, but it does have a “super lumens” setting.  Then the larger doesn’t have a 400 watt HQI (430 HPS)?

  • Anonymous

    I know… I was just trying to play along with the joke.. guess I failed.