Light bulb upgrade

[scubaethan]

Will my ballasts support replacing my 27 watt CF lamps with 32 watt ones? The ballasts say "Lamp type: FC8T9 22W" but came with the 27 watt lamps so I don't know if that matters. This is in an older 12g JBJ nano.

 

[rdnelson]

May work for a while but the lamps will most likely fail prematurely.

 

[scubaethan]

Makes me wonder why it came with 27watt lamps in the first place?