MHannon
11/02/2009, 06:58 PM
I bought this Lights Of America floodlight (http://www.homedepot.com/Lighting-Fans-Security-Flood-Lighting/Lights-of-America/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xr5Zaqp5Z1ow/R-100010739/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053) a while back to light my refugium. A month later it stopped working so I exchanged it for another. It worked for a couple months and now this new one is not working either. I replaced the bulb and it is still not working. So that leaves the ballast/circuit board that is fried.
This is the bulb that it uses (http://www.homedepot.com/Lighting-Fans-Light-Bulbs-Compact-Tube-Fluorescents/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xr5Zar0o/R-100186835/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053)
It is a 65 watt compact fluorescent. It is just the bulb (no internal ballast like the smaller cf house bulbs.) I want to keep the housing, reflector and bulb and just wire in a new ballast.
The bulb uses a 4U E-39 Mogul base which is 2X larger than a standard light bulb socket, so I have to re use the old socket.
I went back to home depot and found an electronic ballast that is rated to run two 48inch T8 bulbs which are 32 watts each or 64 watts total. Here is a similar ballast to the one I found at HD.
http://www.prolighting.com/1f312elbaho.html
My question is, Can I combine the 2 wires (the ballast is meant to drive 2 32W bulbs) and run my single 65W bulb?
This is the bulb that it uses (http://www.homedepot.com/Lighting-Fans-Light-Bulbs-Compact-Tube-Fluorescents/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xr5Zar0o/R-100186835/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053)
It is a 65 watt compact fluorescent. It is just the bulb (no internal ballast like the smaller cf house bulbs.) I want to keep the housing, reflector and bulb and just wire in a new ballast.
The bulb uses a 4U E-39 Mogul base which is 2X larger than a standard light bulb socket, so I have to re use the old socket.
I went back to home depot and found an electronic ballast that is rated to run two 48inch T8 bulbs which are 32 watts each or 64 watts total. Here is a similar ballast to the one I found at HD.
http://www.prolighting.com/1f312elbaho.html
My question is, Can I combine the 2 wires (the ballast is meant to drive 2 32W bulbs) and run my single 65W bulb?