@GEsoftwhite100watts:
I've seen T8 ballasts at work that do the "sometimes work/sometimes don't" thing...eventually they'll just quit alltogether.
One time I brought one home after the electrition replaced it just to 'test' (was one of those multi voltage ballasts, so even though it was running on 277v, it would also do 120v). Didn't get it to work so I tore it apart to see what was inside LOL...filled with tar just like a magnetic ballast so I saved the remaining wires & dumped it in my electronics recycle pile
May not be something like a bad/loose connection, it could be a protection feature detecting an issue thats right on the borderline...
Interesting with the 120 -> 277v trick, quite simple too. I figured there was something more to doing it.
Sometimes I can somewhat-hear the highschool band practicing, from a school that's basically a mile from me. Sound from those drums certainly does carry. Even with all the traffic-noise and what not.
Wouldn't it be cool if there was a way to "record" a dream into video? then you could have pictures of all those weird lights :cool: !
@Mike:
I wonder what would happen if you did connect the 240v inputs to 120v.. if you then might get 60v out of the 120v output?
(I know thats phase-to-phase input like the 208, but would be an interesting 'test') Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought those 'multi-tap' ballasts simply had the various 'voltage inputs' spaced at different positions on the same coil (rather than multiple coils), so then couldn't you
theoretically use any of the voltages?
If I had a loud light like that in the yard, it would very likely result in a 'noise complaint' (assuming the light ran all night, though in reality something that bright would only be used occasionally, it'd be too expensive to leave it on all night every night anyway :lol: )
I see the various sites in this way:
LG more of a 'fluorescents' site
GOL more of a 'street-lights' site
ATL being the 'UK fluorescents/street-lights' site
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I had no idea anyone else but me was into lights til one day I was looking at YouTube and on a whim did a search for "Fluorescent Light"
and finding people's 'startup' and 'EOL videos...
that led to me google'ing for fluorescent lights forums & finding LG.