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My Very Own GE Crimefighter!
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Here's what appears to be a lightly used GE crimefighter (the paint is still there and relatively shiny too, so it was probably in use for a short period of time). I got this from Joe Maurath. It's intended to be a 250W MV remote ballast fixture. Note the lack of a PC socket or lack of a provision for one. When I clean this up I bet the paint will shine even more. The top has some missing sheets of paint but nothing drastic on the visible portion of the fixture.
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Great collection going on, I'm impressed and amazed at the same time.
Yeah that's true, might be a maximum. Joe said it had a 175W lamp when he got it but the lamp looked unused as if someone just stuck it in there to make it look presentable or something. At any rate, an interesting fixture. I will either install a 175W or 250W MH/MV ballast inside there. I'd like to go 250W to retain authenticity of the nameplate but 175W would be less of a glarebomb.
Still, I wonder, why the fuses? Like you said, doesn't really make sense to fuse the ballast secondaries. The only thing it would protect against would be the socket short-circuiting or something lol. From what the fuse reads, it appears to be a thermal cut-out fuse or something. One's missing so I'll probably remove it like you did with yours. I'll leave it in there til I put a ballast in this though (which won't be for awhile, likely).
Mine was also missing the other fuse and I think it's designed to use only one fuse since the other screw on mine was used to splice the ballast leads.
And yep, I checked again and it appears the missing fuse's block is bypassed.
Interesting video! I've done composite work before so it was interesting to see how they made them. That particular episode aired in 2005 so I wonder if that R7 shown was NOS at the time or they still made them in 2005.