Electrical question

[Uncle FREEDOM]

Hey guys, i was working on a way to streamline my flip flop and i have a question. Please let me know if this is possible.

Could one wire up a flip/flop in the following way...

Say you had 4 ballasts out put to the bulbs and ran them into a box and attached each of the black wires to one power bar (so 4 black wires attached) Then did the same to ANOTHER power bar with the 4 white wires.

Now if one was to wire up each of those power bars to one end of one of these 40 amp relays.....

http://www.omega.com/ppt/pptsc.asp?ref=9575H3A000&nav=AUTJ03

Then out the other side of the relay wire up 4 power bars with the corresponding black and white wires.

Would this work or by adding and then subtracting all the power on central bars mess things up??

Thanks...

Hopefully this makes sence since i have no drawing software,

 

[PharmaCan]

You don't really want to use power bars because you would have exposed connections. Use wire nuts or some other kind of insulated connector. Neither a power bar nor a quality connector should diminish your electrical flow, assuming everything is properly sized, but you really don't want exposed connections like a power bar would result in.

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[Uncle FREEDOM]

Thanks for the reply, Ya i hear ya.

So it would be ok to merge all the power together on one pair of "power strips" and then flip it to the corresponding strips?

thanks

 

[boroboro]

nope. Each ballast to bulb circuit needs to be separate. I never read that anywhere, but I did spend a good 6 or 8 seconds thinking about connecting a bunch of bulbs and capacitors / starters in parallel. I think Real Bad Things would result...

 

[Uncle FREEDOM]

Can any electrician confirm bad things would happen?

Thanks for the replies and expanding my knowledge of electricity.

 

[imnotcrazy]

Definite bad things would happen. You effectively made the entire circuit's capacitance reduce to a value 1/4 (using 4 ballasts as your multiplier) of what each capacitor would be individually.

The input 120/240 can be wired parallel, provided that the circuit supplying all the ballast inputs can handle the full load of all ballasts. The outputs MUST be wired independent of each other to maintain the proper circuit values for the bulb to fire properly,