Ballast Freaking out....HELP

[New_2_Chronic]

Thanks Hemp, that sounds like a good idea anyway....

Ill get another timer and see if I still have this problem, sounds like i got my timer overloaded anyway....

 

[someguy]

buy 2 timers and even out the load best you can maybe?

 

[Puffin Afatty]

I agree with the HG :aok: I use several timers to start lights, pumps, etc at different times. :farm:

 

[New_2_Chronic]

Im keeping the lights on 24 hrs....They look good but now require more frequent waterings... I will get the same 15 watt timer, and only put the light on it. I will put everything else on the other timer, exaust, fans, a/c. they seemed to work fine. I will schedule all the exAUST stuff to go off 30 minutes after the lights and come on 30 minutes prior....sound good?

 

[New_2_Chronic]

Now its dead....im in trouble... 12 plants under 8 26watt cfl's is going to be bad,,, going to be like that for about a week...hope they dont die...

Im ordering a new light and wehn it gtets here going to send the other one back.

 

[GeNYC 07]

with all this plugging unplugging maybe its the male part of ballast that the wire comes from the wall plugs into. fuse could be loose in there or the wires that hook up to that piece inside the ballast. when did you buy it. lumitek has a 2yr warranty i think. if anyone can tell me how to post a pic i will show what im talking about

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

You are having quite a bit of electrical trouble. Could you be getting power surges or something like that that is causing you problems?

 

[New_2_Chronic]

I dont know....It wouldnt suprise me after all the other problems I had...

Everything else on that circut is fine...

Could that fact that this light is going through a 100FT extension cord... I 15 amp one...But I bring it in the house and plug in it directly and it still does not work so i dont think its that,...

 

[GeNYC 07]

Digital ballast are notoriously a pain. I bet the ballast and i would bet it where the power cord plugs in. but it could be a loose fuse. bottom line i have 7 future brite door stops and 2 lumutek. Nobody like to repair these things. I do small repairs on them like i mentioned if neither of those things work then you have to send it in the store will probably give you a new ballast on the spot. Lumitek will send them the replacement.

 

[New_2_Chronic]

Its a electric ballast...

Im thinking its the bulb... took the bulb out ant there is a small piece of debris bouncing around inside the glass..

 

[GeNYC 07]

all ballasts are electric. you dont mean electronic or digital do you???? If its a magnetic ballast then yeah prob just that bub remember not to touch it with your hands.

 

[420FREEDOM]

I've got a lumatek, the instructions with it say to wait thirty means before turning it off or on. Just set it up once, hook it up to the timer and don't touch it. I had a plant grow balls from me f-ing with the lumatek and it not coming back on.

 

[New_2_Chronic]

It was the bulb...new bulb got here and was replaced and its working... I want to see if now I can put it oin the timer....