Industrial Ballast Rewire

[Guest]

I hop that industrial units still works, by the look of the burning/scorching on the case it has overheated to the point of almost catching fire. Don't know if you get these in America, but in the Uk, most ballasts are HPS or MH, read the label on the ballast, it will tell you. I can freely swap between HPS or MH bulbs in my light fixture run by this ballast:

 

[Haps]

I just want to use one of the mogul sockets from burned out 1K's I have here, to run this 400, so I can remove the unit like a remote ballst. Seems simpler than reworking this industrial light that is all in one. If I can open and disconnect the existing socket, run the new one into it, then that unit becomes just a ballast, is my goal.
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[HeadyPete]

That will work fine for you.

 

[Guest]

In england, 250, 400, 600 and 1k are all the same size mogul and as they are ceramic, I think they are all the same. Certainly 250, 400 and 600 ones are the same. If the socket will work with a 1k, it will work with a 400. You can buy ceramic mogul sockets at any electrical factor and they are pretty cheap.

 

[Guest]

"Electrical Factor",I really love that.We call them Electrical supply houses here..Sounds crappy,no creativity,like somewhere you don't want to go first thing in the morning..

 

[fuzygrowth]

ummmmmm... i'm really curious if this thing ends up working for you. it really looks pretty crispy. let us know!!

 

[Guest]

Those scorch marks came from running it with the bulb below those marks, and the hot air from the bulb, rolling up past those shoulders and having tiny quantities of dust in them. Most all of that dark brown soot will wipe off with some elbow grease and a good detergent; however the paint will have changed color to a tan in the warmest places, because tiny micro-dust will have embedded itself into the pores of the paint, and be really hard to remove. If he realy wants to remove it, after he's done the first cleanup on it, he can use hydrogen peroxide to bleach out the scorched micro-particles in the paint's pores, and it'll look darned near good as new. It's common in industrial fixtures.

 

[Guest]

you can run a mh bulb in a hps fixture it just shortens the life of the bulb....i have been doing it for years i dont care what any one says...proof is in the pudding

OK, and I think I left out the info that the 1K is HPS, and I want to use it on a MH? I figured it should work, because ordering ballasts and sockets separately, the stores do not make any distinctions of wattage or color flavor. But, I am a goofy old fart so I figured I better check with y'all, thanks.
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mh bulb in hps fixture

 

[Guest]

Are you sure that isn't a dual MH/HPS ballast you're using brainthor? I once accidentally screwed a 250s Mh into a 250w HPS fixture and it didn't ignite.

 

[Guest]

no its not...im sure of what i posted...i dont know what was wrong with your ballast that one time...but i do it...would you like a pic of my ballast?