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07-23-2004, 04:59 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: San Antonio, Texas
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|  ok so how do you tell if its an electronic ballast? i'll take a picture of my light thing and post it so someoen could tell me if it would work. if mine isn't an electronic ballast could i get one from homedepot? how much is it? |
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07-23-2004, 05:02 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Palm Springs, Ca
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| An electronic ballast will be small and light, a magnetic ballast will be the size of two eyeglass cases and will have some weight to it. You can usually find electronic ballasts at most hardware stores.
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07-23-2004, 05:06 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Palm Springs, Ca
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| Ok, I don't want to put you down, but if your asking that questiuon then you didn't at all understand this post or the principal of overdriving lights. The idea is to use an electronic ballast designed to power 2 or 4 tubes, and use it to overpower 1 or 2 tubes, thus giving you more watts per tube in less space. If you are not 100% sure what you are doing, please don't continue, I don't want to read a post on here that you burned your house down while trying to do this.
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07-23-2004, 05:07 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: San Antonio, Texas
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| sorry for posting so much but in 5 minutes my brains rushing everywhere, anyways my dad has these light fixtures taht are like somonas, so if i were to take that electronic ballast and put it into my light fixture on my fish tank that has a 24" light tube how many watts do you think i could produce? it produces 20 watts right now Last edited by Balloon Fish; 07-23-2004 at 05:09 PM. |
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07-23-2004, 05:17 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Palm Springs, Ca
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| It depends on what the output of the electronic ballast from his light fixture is? You won't get full wattage, so putting a 40w ballast connected to a 20 watt tube you'll get somewhere around 30 watts out of it.
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07-23-2004, 05:18 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: San Antonio, Texas
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| ok cool thx, i'm gonna try to ask my dad if i can have it but he'll probably say its a waste of time and money but it is kinda old and he did say he kinda wanted it, :/ anyways if i can get it i'll have more questions for you  he he thx for the helpoh ya my dad has these two broken lights in his restaurant that are the same one as the one at home, do you think its the light thats broken or the ballast? because both lights aren't on, i'll try to ask him for one |
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i think it could be magnetic, please take a look at it and tell me it is electronic :/|
07-23-2004, 07:05 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Palm Springs, Ca
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| That's a magnetic ballast, sorry but it won't work. If you used that you'd definately burn your house down!
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