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The way a metal halide light is set up, there's a transformer in it called a "ballast." The ballast powers the bulb. You can wire ballasts to a lot of different voltages--which voltages you can use are dependent on the ballast in question--but 120v single phase is almost always one of the choices. So yes, you can do it.

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