[Shop-talk] Shop light problems - update

[Richard Beels]

ballast info?


At 08/08/10 at 19:00, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Darrell 
Walker's keyboard and said:

>Anyway, I decided to try replacing the ballast this
>time.  The replacement ballast is nearly twice the size of the stock ballast,
>and twice as heavy.  It wired up a bit differently (the original had more
>separate wires, the replacement mostly wires each end of the bulbs together).
>But it fired right up with the new ballast, and even seems brighter.  What's
>more, I decided to try the "bad" bulbs (ones that no longer worked even in the
>best of the original fixtures), and every one of them was fine with the
>replacement ballast!  I'm glad I hadn't had time to take them to the hazardous
>waste drop off.


Cheers!