Flickering bulb

Proteus · #1 10-07-2013, 12:51 PM

250w halide bulb about 4 days old flickers. Not on off but quick flicker of color change. Kinda like a weld flicker.

Any ideas y

Aquattro · #2 10-07-2013, 01:22 PM

Just the one of two? I had a time when all mine did that, but it turned out to be a bad transformer down the street. Hydro changed it out and no more flicker. Probably not your issue, but thought I'd mention it

Proteus · #3 10-07-2013, 02:14 PM

Ok. I'll call fortis as the powerpole behind my place was hit last week

Only have one halide

kien · #4 10-07-2013, 02:32 PM

There were two instances where I had this problem.

1. I had a bad ballast (Galaxy). Got it replaced and prob went away.
2. Bad bulb (eBay). Replaced it with another "good" bulb (also eBay) and the problem went away.

kien · #5 10-07-2013, 02:35 PM

Oh, there was a third time last year during a heat wave where my ballast overheated. It got wicket hot. I shut it down and let it cool off then powered it back up and problem went away. This was during a time when out central AC was busted so the next day I set up a fan to actively cool the ballasts. No more flickering during the heat wave.

Proteus · #6 10-07-2013, 02:44 PM

I gunna grab a new bulb when I have a tomorrow. Sure hope it's not the ballash

kien · #7 10-07-2013, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Proteus

I gunna grab a new bulb when I have a tomorrow. Sure hope it's not the ballash

shouldn't all that be under warranty still?

Proteus · #8 10-07-2013, 03:54 PM

Yes. Just have to contact the lfs

kien · #9 10-07-2013, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Proteus

Yes. Just have to contact the lfs

Cool. ya, I would start with the bulb to eliminate that possibility. If the new bulb still flickers then I'd target the ballast. If new bulb and ballast still flicker then you've got some bigger issues maybe.

lastlight · #10 10-07-2013, 04:04 PM

i'd swap the questionable bulb into a known working ballast first and see to be fair to the lfs...