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GullWhiz

[Dec 22, 2010 at 10:57 PM]

Looking good and clever way to display it!

joe_347V

[Dec 23, 2010 at 12:41 AM]

Wow you have a lot of CGE ballasts in your display, Nice job!

TiCoune66

[Dec 23, 2010 at 12:44 AM]

Thanks! ^__^ And I still have a couple more to come!

The all black ballast is also a GE BTW, it's a very interesting stamped ballast from 1960! Still works but it shoots 85V to ground... Sad

Form109

[Dec 23, 2010 at 08:47 PM]

Vince ever gonna put those MOT's in action?

TiCoune66

[Dec 23, 2010 at 09:40 PM]

Well not that Advance, it's vintage! But I will convert one of my MOTs into a "homemade CWI ballast" for my arc light.

Form109

[Dec 24, 2010 at 12:07 AM]

how will you do that vince?...most MOT's don't seem to self-regulate too well.

TiCoune66

[Dec 24, 2010 at 12:41 AM]

Easy, I join two MOT primaries in one core! I will also use a few 0.81uF caps in parallel (the caps in parallel together, but in series with the load).

Form109

[Dec 24, 2010 at 01:50 AM]

or you could do what i did once...use a Sufficently rated 120-240 Transformer....feed 120 into the 240 Side and connect the 120 side to the transformer,lowered the current enough to prevent the breaker (15A) from tripping.

TiCoune66

[Dec 24, 2010 at 01:59 AM]

Well, here's the thing: it goes further than experimenting here Wink

I want to build an arc light usable as an everyday light, so I need a ballast that can run on its own.

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Gallery of Lights

Moar ballasts!

I wouldn't like to see all those non-working ballast go to waste... so I display them on my workbench! Some ballasts are still waiting to be displayed, like the very late pre-CGE ballast under the Philips-Advance ballast. Oh, and that huge transformer is a MOT from Advance Transformers! Yup!

I wouldn't like to see all those non-working ballast go to waste... so I display them on my workbench! Some ballasts are still waiting to be displayed, like the very late pre-CGE ballast under the Philips-Advance ballast.

Oh, and that huge transformer is a MOT from Advance Transformers! Yup!