Jimbo 1973 Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 Hi all , looking at getting a second hand t5 marine light off a member . Question is he says it has a 28w blue marine bulb in it and it also takes white bulbs as well . I want to put plant grow 54w bulbs in , can this be done ? I'm not sure if upping the watts on the bulbs I'm going to use is possible ? cheers Jamie don't want to buy some bulbs and blow them trying them out or risk starting a fire or anything :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 1973 Posted March 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Is my question to stupid to answer :-/ someone must know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matmatmat Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Haha not to stupid to answer! I think it probably got lost as you asked it early in the morn while people a still sleepy The best bet would be to ring age of aquariums and ask them, I know we have an imported t5 light and running too high a wattage bulbs blew the ballast? Well it don't work now anyway? HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 1973 Posted March 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Thanks mmm good advice . Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
col Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 sounds like the unit is a t5lo and you need a t5ho ,so yeah no good for you at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 1973 Posted March 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Thanks col , looks like I've found a cheap twin t8 anyway which will ad another 70 watts which will give me around 250 watts . Still low but it will have to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
