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10-08-2005, 07:21 PM
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mh won't fire
I have been having troubles getting my mh to fire up. I never had any problems until the last few days it sometimes takes an hour to finally fire up. Bulb is pretty new could it be the ignitor. Any suggestions welcome
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10-08-2005, 07:22 PM
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we need a little more info, brand and type of ballast and brand and type of bulb would help.
Steve
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10-08-2005, 07:33 PM
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The ballast is a sylvania 150 watt hqi and the bulb is a coralife 10000 k. I got this setup from des about 6 months ago
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10-08-2005, 10:26 PM
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is the bulb single ended or double ended? I would start by making sure you have your parts wired corectly IE. ballast capacitor and ignightor. then I would double check all conections and make dure they are snug.
Steve
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10-09-2005, 12:54 AM
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Yes it is de. I checked all connections already. Could the ignitor need replacing?
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10-09-2005, 03:01 AM
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MH not firing
I had problems with my MH this last spring.
The bulb was Hamilton 250w DE 14K. The bulb holders were made by PFO. What had happened was, when I seated the bulb, it took a fairly good push to get them in. In so doing, I ended up putting to much stress on the bulb contacts on each side. The wires coming out of the glass bulb are pinched into these metal contacts and I probably broke the micro spot weld (if there is one) thus causing the light to take a long time to fire. I replaced the light and this time I used a flathead screwdriver to pry the bulb holders on each side open a little and now the lights fire without any delay. FYI I did see some tiny black arc marks in the electrode that extended onto the plaster thingymajig so there was arcing going on...check for this. Take care.
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