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Old 11-22-2009, 01:40 AM
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Can't you just cut the ends and connect them using good old solder?
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Can't you just cut the ends and connect them using good old solder?
The problem is in order to connect them to the ballast you need some funky plug, I don't have that plug and they're not sold anymore since PFO went under or whatever happened to them.
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Oh you can't just open the ballast and make direct connections? Well maybe not as safely huh?
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Oh you can't just open the ballast and make direct connections? Well maybe not as safely huh?
Yeah likely I could have made it work ok ok, my dad is an electrician so he could have made it work but it would have been fugly.
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Old 11-22-2009, 01:50 AM
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Message to all things fugly then..."not today bitches". You guys have a pretty supportive network over there.
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