hooking up ballast

[Doug]

Please keep it with in the boards guidlines, guys. No need for telling someone to stop whinning and such.
Thanks

[Bob I]

Originally Posted by venkiw

On the loose connection aspect, I am pretty much sure as I am an Engineer that loose connections will cause circuit to blow. I'll be wiring it to work over my tank.

Venki

Well as an Electrician, I know that a loose connection will cause greast problems at the connection point. Mainly it will cause great overheating, and most likely a fire, but it will not cause a problem at the load end except less current and voltage, and I don't think that would cause bulb failure. And yes, hopefully the breaker will trip before the fire happens.

[venkiw]

From what I have heard, the bulb works ok when tested on another ballast. Since the ballast will be shipped to me I'll let you know what mistake was made. I cannot look in to my crystal ball roght now. Which is the load end to the best of my knowledge the ballast need wiring on both side. Making nine connection points as part of the wiring.

Low voltage will spike the current though the circuit to compensate for the low voltage. which will cause the fuse to blow in the circuit. If I find a blown fuse in the circuit, I'll know exactly what happened.

I may have to ask some dumb question before I hire my next electrician.

[Bob I]

Originally Posted by venkiw

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Low voltage will spike the current though the circuit to compensate for the low voltage. which will cause the fuse to blow in the circuit. If I find a blown fuse in the circuit, I'll know exactly what happened.

I have no vested interest in any of this, but I have a problem when statements are made that are patently wrong. Here is the basic formula I=E/R, with E being voltage., I is current, and R is resistance. Therefore, if E is low, then naturally I will also be low, and no current spike will occur.

I can only say with some confidence that a bad connection will not cause component failure, but a WRONG connection will.

I may have to ask some dumb question before I hire my next electrician.[/quote]

[venkiw]

LMAO!!!

Do you really mean this, I hope not.

Can I hear your explanation for:

W = VI*Power Factor.

Where W = Watts, V = Voltage & I = Current.

[Bob I]

No, that ain't going to happen. As I said I have no real interest in all of this. If, however, you want to visit me here in Calgary, I would be more than pleased to show you what I mean.

[Aquattro]

Gentlemen, please see Doug's comments above. Thanks!

[Skimmerking]

i knew this was going to happen, on this piece of borad. We should have a live cam forum so when sombody has a problem they can sort it out on a cam site...

I have seen this so many times i was a moderator on a site and was slammed all the time on the advice on what i knew ,never again .any ways people alweays see the other side of these conversations and they always end up like this..

its too bad to see this oh well to each his own.................

MIKe

[Bob I]

I agree Mike. The problem is what you said. Just seeing words on a screen leaves one open to all kinds of interpretations. I offered an opinion, and was told by another poster that he was LM(H)AO. I fully realise that I forgot something in the formula I posted, and would have appreciated being told in a gentlemanly way that this was the case. It actually has no bearing on the problem people were having. So the answer he posted in a very snide way left me with a bad taste in my mouth, and I am unlikely to buy anything from him. If a clerk in a store talked to me that way, I would tell him to kiss my you know what, and would go to another store.