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Old 12-30-2008, 08:22 PM
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I don't know why I buy used stuff

My ballast seems to be dying again. For a few days, the bulbs would flicker once in a while and then yesterday one of them started flickering non stop and then just stopped working. I left it off the rest of the day. Today is started up again and was fine for an hour before it started flickering out of control again and the ballast started buzzing kind of loud. So I turned them off again.

I know thats not a lot of info but any ideas?

Its the PFO dual 400 watt ballast. TAR style. I know they suck. I think I should just buy a new light set up. I was happy with my electronic 250 watt ballasts but they died on me too! Jeez... I have had bad light luck.
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Old 12-30-2008, 08:29 PM
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I had problems years ago, and it turned out to be the power to my house. Hydro moved me to a different transformer and it was good after that...
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Is the bulb sitting level? They do not like to be on a tilt. Hope that makes sense.
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Is the bulb sitting level? They do not like to be on a tilt. Hope that makes sense.
I think there is a slight tilt. I will look into that. Would it cause the ballast to buzz though?
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Old 12-30-2008, 09:54 PM
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Can old bulbs cause problems like this?
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I'm taggin along. I would like to know some of these answers before buying lights :P
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Can old bulbs cause problems like this?
Yes they can.
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