how to wire ballast 1
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- Опубликовано: 4 мар 2012
- how to wire ballast 1
This video will show you how to wire a HPS and Metal Halide Ballasts and a few extra tips.
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The very 1st HID I used was a 400w metal halide, with a Philips hpi T plus bulb. Which was "borrowed" from a local football park, didn't realise how big those black boxes with the safety caging over the glass were till I had it cut, and in hands,! The weight, awquared size N that weight, also the noise of all the clattering bout,!, Sheesh! Anyhoo eventually got it home with the help of a sulo bin, took to bits then began. Made a reflector from the dimpled metal from inside the lamp, screwed together, got some jack chain and attached a metal "L" shaped bracket to attach the porcelain fitment too. I had to buy several feet of electrical wire, wired the ceramic to the transformer aka ballast, which was just a white magnetic box which I kept attached to the base plate from inside the actual light system, attached more wire to a plug a hey presto, my first HID, free, but quite a bit work involved.
Used this for about 5-6 years with huge results, then decided to go a bit more pro, TBH I've still got that very light to this day, made by the company "Faeber" if I mind correctly,?? The bulb, Philips hpi T plus MH replacement was £85 back in the late 90,s,. Just for the bulb . lol
Thank you so much man. You really saved a co worker and I. We wired the whole thing up to 277v, but we couldn’t figure out what cap meant on the wiring diagram. Then we saw the round cylinder said 240 on it, so we left it in the box, assuming it was only used for a 240v application. We flipped the switch and nothing happened, so we quickly turned it off to prevent any damage to the ballast.
We found your video and as soon as you said the round cylinder was the capacitor, it all made sense. Again, thank you for taking the time to post this.
thank you much. got my light working. had unwired it last year and forgot how to get her back together
Great job on this vid...cool to know the world still has good people like you in it.
i'm satisfied. you answered all six of my questions.
this video was extremely helpful, answered all my questions! thanks for posting it!
God damn this is helpful. Thank you, we just replace with new led lights but without this video I'd have smoked my current installation.
Thanks for the great tutorial.
Thanks for the video it’s very important
Thanks for the great video.
You are a genius thank you so much what a clear video and all again thank you.
Nice presentation! Would you be able to lead me to any information on how to test a Low Pressure Sodium ballast, perhaps taking resistance readings? I maintain 55Watt LPS tunnel fixtures and I'm trying to figure out when it's the capacitor that's bad, and when it's the ballast that's bad. Thanks!
great video
Commonly the maker of ballast does the connections of ignitor and capacitor; commonly the ballast sales ready to install, connect to power and lamp.
On this ballast. i have two questions, please if you can tell us, I do not know what it will be the right voltage to hook this fixture up, if I have a reading of 120v and 210v at the building but I would like to hook this to either 208v or 240v and how is the wiring process? Thanks a lot for a very great video.
I appreciate it.
I followed your instructions to attach a MH ballast to my hood but I'm running into a weird problem. I connected a plug adapter to my ballast and plugged it into my hood but the bulb would not turn on. I started tinkering and found that when i disconnected the green ground wire that runs from the hood to the screw on the ballast, the light would go on. It's nice that it works now but i'm not keen on leaving the ground disconnected. Any idea why this might have happened?
Can this ballast be used without the igniter on Mercury vapor light bulbs? Of course marching the ballast and the lamp voltage and Wattage also. Please let me know. Thank you
thank you sir
Can i put my 2 compactor wires with the one cap wire together? Can I tie all 3 of them together in one wire nut? My ballast only has 1 cap wire it's 100w
what do you think of the conversion kit that turns a hps ballast into a mh x hps
One of the three wires with prong on my 110v connector got fried. Its scorched...
Can I cut the wires and attach new prong connectors? Or do I need this thing tested at a store...dont want a fire...
Now this ballest is for the sodium vapor light right?
Hi guys, I want to run a 240v 1000w metal halide ballast and 1000w lamp. Is that system maxed out or would I be able work in digital timer as well? Many Thanks.
If that ballast where to go bad could it increase the voltage on the line ?
good help
I have a Advance 175 watt 120V ballast. It has 2 coms, 1 120V and 1 Cap. Where do I put the 2 Coms? Label is very faded and all I can make out is the date it was manufactured
I have an old magnetic advanced. Only have 2 blue wires?
can u please show me how to hook up a 2 wire ignitor...red and white.
Well done! Thank you.
What does the capacitor do?
Power factor correction
Can you please show a video on how to wire a ballast to 240V
Hi I notice you said on the video a wire for 280v I am assuming you mean 208v, right? well i am wounder if you can please teach us how to wire it to 208v, does the com wire connects to the other 120v, on the ballast only shows one wire for each voltage, like 120v (one hot one neutral) but how about 208v or 240v? Thanks a lot for been so nice and take your time to make your video it is great!!
I have a question why some us don't have a ignitor?
How do you troubleshoot a ballast meaning how do you check if its still good? I know if it smell bad is no good. How do you do a continuity test?
please can i get the specification of the ballast and bulb used
You should explain what your wiring up each component
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How do you wire in a photo eye to this set up
If I needed 25+ feet of cord I have always just used 25+ feet of 12/3 gauge 120/240 volt cable on the feed side of the ballast. Good video anyway
Hi loved your video would you be able to help me rewiring my 1000watt mh ballast its old
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I wouldn't sweat the ground wire. It would wirenut to the green ground wire in the fiixture.
You got me pretty much confused. LOL!
Have you ever flipped your ballasts running two rooms with one ballast?
I have a 220 light pole do I need to connect the 220 line too?
when you're connecting these ballasts to 2:20 you only hook up the 220 lead to the one hot wire in the common to the other wire
how would you wire up a bypass switch to bypass the ignitor to run a MH bulb of the same wattage ???
metal halide and HPS even on the same wattage to the lamp itself the voltage and amperage is different even though there are switchable ballast out there we don't like them because some of them are basically an HPS ballast with a switch that takes the igniter out of play but then still feeds the lamp the wrong voltage and amperage the ones that are designed as HPS metal halide that are double coil has a tap point to change the current and wattage
hey so i have one of these ballasts got it wired up perfectly.....i plug it in warms up and functions good.....but then the breaker starts rattling obviously the breaker that the light is running on. Also when i unplug it and try to plug back in the light wont come on but the ballast starts you can hear it vibrating and everything.
So im trying to troubleshoot this to make sure my light doesnt turn off when im gone or something, im gonna try and find a circuit that is less busy to connect to today and see if that helps. At first i thought there was just a bad connection somewhere or the incorrect capacitor was being used i dont believe that is the case though.
If anyone could provide any input you would be a great help!!!
+Jacob gallegly everything you have is correct. The bulbs will not start up right after being hot. you would haveto wait for the bulb to cool down for it to start again.
if your breaker is shaking or vibrating or whatever I would replace that breaker they're relatively inexpensive and that means that there's something wrong with the breaker itself bad contact inside you're better off being safe than sorry as far as a lamp not firing back up right away the lamp has to cool down from anywhere from 6 minutes to 12 minutes depending on the lamp
thanks i really appreciate your guys help since i made this post i actually got into an electrical apprenticeship haha. so i have come to an understanding that yes the breaker does need to be replaced and the light just put the breaker over its limits. im thinking about installing a 240 plug and have a designated circuit for these lights.
Does it matter which common wire is used for the igniter and which is used for the power input?
+Samuel King no, they are connected together
I have a question, I hope you can help with. I am trouble shooting an hps light system that died, but was first intermittant, going off, and turning back on for awhile, before it died completely. I noticed you said the capacitor had a 55uf output, easy enough to check. the question is, would the igniter play any role in the light working once it is turned on? Example, after ignition, the igniter could die, and the light would continue working, but of course would not turn on again. Or would the death of the igniter cause the bulb to go off immediately?
great video btw...
the cap balances = evens pulling of current ,,,, when thats bad u get flickering,dimming, fluctuation of power .and the . Iginitor does just that. jumps starts. sounds like Cap. is bad .. Good indicator the top will be dome'd or look bulged out! hope that helped . older stuff can be faulty/ dangerous . mabe buy new kit advance is about 85-95$ 400 w and 100$ for 600 worth it . Venture is good too!
if you have a meter that can measure capacitance what you would do is to be energized the capacitor by using a metal object to short there two poles together preferably something that has a good amount insulation for your hand well necessary and then read the capacitance you don't want to put a charge capacitor on your meter
Thanks for the tip!
I'm wording a ballist mh 400 watt and my build ignites but once it gets to full strength it cuts out what is the problem. Also my ballist says HPS can u run mh bulb off a HPS ballist.
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i have a 400w elt ballast and when i plug it in it creates a big sound that me and my friend can't event talk near the ballast. Is there any problem or is it how it supposed to be?
That sound develops over time as the ballast gets older but there is nothing wrong with it.
@@r1ckastl3y86 LOL, after all those years dumping that ballast and getting a digital one was the best choice anyone can make :D
+ATSLLCUSA How does a halogen backup light in some Metal Halide Highbay lights work?
in those systems there is a circuit that realizes the hid lamp is out and turns on a halogen lamp while the hid lamp is cooling down or informing them they need to replace it
in those systems there is a circuit that realizes the hid lamp is out and turns on a halogen lamp while the hid lamp is cooling down or informing them they need to replace it
+ATSLLCUSA I found out that it's called a Quartz restrike kit. Can you maybe make a demonstration video of it?
I dont see a starter or igniter with your ballast...why? Most of the ballasts we get have cap and ignitor.
Why does my light keep turning on yellow? Is this the cause of having the wires reversed on light bulb?
The white cylinder that you call a capacitor is actually an ignitor and I believe you connected it wrong.
Could you use a 250w bulb on a 400w ballast? Or a 600w bulb on a 1000w ballast?
Nope because it would burn the bulb out quicker.
i have mh ballasts, can i convert them to hps ballasts
You can't convert the existing ballast you would have to remove the MH parts and get hps parts. And by parts I mean capacitor ballast igniter. Better to bypass to LED though.
you wired the capacitor wrong. one lead of the capacitor goes to the "cap" wire on the ballast and the other lead goes to the return wire on the light socket.
why we need to use the balast? if it purpose is light so we just use the standard bulb and we have light and for more light we can install two bulb without any balast. i dont understand his purpose at all
So.. I'm an electrician whose done close to a thousand of these over the years... and I'm watching this on a school night at 2 in the morning. What the fuck is wrong with me.
those orange wire nuts are only rated for a max of 2 #14 awg...
The ground wire cant be re purposed and must be grounded under any circumstances...at least in Europe..
You talk about a negative effect when you cross the live wire with the common wire at the lamp holder. What negative effect are you talking about? Fire hazard, or just having a better chance of getting shocked? What if you crossed these wires on an overhead florescent? What negative effect would that have? I've heard none to many. I agree it's bad practice, but some say it makes no difference in some situation. Which is it?
Even though the lamp is AC voltage the height if you look at the center pin does directly into the arc tube and the what would be white wire the surrounding screw part has a metal ride that goes up to the top side of the arc 2 and has Apia in pana so even though there AC ran bulbs there's still a hot in common on the bulb that is a cross the board for all bulbs you never want to hook them up backwards and you look when you screw the bulb in there's a little bit of a metal from the lamp visible if you ever were to touch that and not have good insulated shoes you will be shocked by the 400 watts when its hooked up properly it's not an issue
Typo in the beginning when I use speech to text so maybe a few typos the light does have a positive and negative the center pin that goes directly to the arc tube is the black wire not white wire the white wire is besides screw base which is basically the negative I hope they make sense ask any further questions
What the fuck is up with hps grow lights? I want regular hps luminaries
The DEA should raid everybody making comments here
But what about you tho
I see it now it was off camera
Really enjoyed your video. Let's check Avasva plans also
im still confused
Unsafe to remove ground wire from fitting.
Poor form
NO.... your ballast DOES NOT come pre wired
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You look really lost dude.