High powered HID lights require a ballast to regulate the amount of electricity received by the bulb. Electronic ballasts are the newer generation of ballasts, though ballasts themselves are old tech. Electronic ballasts fix most of
theproblems that came with their older counterpart, the magnetic ballast, but they also cost more.
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