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02-16-2017, 04:58 AM
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A Nice Surprise
So today I went to J&L and bought some new ballasts for my T5's. I then got home and took apart my fixture. Now there was quite a surprise underneath the hood. My metal halides were wired in a series rather than on running on seperate ballasts. There was T5 ballasts already in the fixture that someone installed which was also hooked up to a 250 watt ballast. Very odd! I just ran a plug to the T5 ballast and it turns out the T5 ballasts work! Also I don't think my metal halides were running at a full 250 watts each. You never know what your buying when your buying used sometimes!
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02-16-2017, 04:26 PM
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Lol no way a 250w ballast can run t5, they would pop. What he probably did was run the hot spliced off supply on the 250 line. But anyways running dedicated lines to each leaves you with the option of having the t5 come on before halide and vice versa...
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02-16-2017, 06:18 PM
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lol i know that. giesseman ballasts come with t5 ballasts built in to them so i was trying to say they were running off of the built in ballast and not the ones inside the fixture. i am by no means an electrician so there might be some things that i say that don't sound right because its hard to explain something when you know not a whole lot about. i wasnt trying to say the t5's were running off of a 250 watt power load. sorry i should have went into more detail.
Last edited by Liquitech; 02-16-2017 at 06:26 PM.
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