can you recycle ballasts from PC for T5s?

integral9

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So I'm building my own hood for my 55g. I built a frame to hang the light for my wife's tank which came out fairly well. So I'm moving up to hood manufacturing.

I bought some TekII reflectors, end caps, stands, and bulbs but held off on purchasing the ballasts as I would like to recycle the ballasts from my current light. But I'm not sure if I can. I've read that some ballasts are suitable for many different types of lighting; ie. PC, VHO, T5, etc., but then some are not. The current light is a Current Dual Satellite w/ 4 x 65W bulbs. Unless I take the light a part, I can only see the brand of one of the ballasts in there. I believe it says sunpak on it. When I get home I will verify.
Anyone have any info to offer on this subject?
 

integral9

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Sorry for the delay folks. 'puter had a SNAFU and I had to reinstall the OS last night.
The ballasts are made by Sunpark. I can't see the model #, but I know they each power 2 65W PC bulbs. I can read the output voltage to be 560v and the input current is 0.91A.
 
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