Can Anyone tell me what is wrong with my ballast or light?

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Allred83

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:-o:leaf::-o:leaf::-o:leaf::wall::wall::wall: OK! My ballast is acting up and i dont know why. It wont turn on first try with the timer anymore and i have replaced the timer checked all the connections when it first tryes to come on it blinks 2 times then just goes out but i have to plug un plug plug un plug till it gitts brighter and after 10 or so times plugging and un plugging it finnaly comes on and works fine for the rest of the day DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT IS WRONG??? I am SOOOO Fucking frustrated!!!!!:wall::wall::wall:
 
i am an electrician and i mess with alot of ballast and lamps, so my explanation is that something is going out. If everything is securely plugged in and properly wired than only a few things can be wrong: bad bulb, bad ballast, or maybe a socket issue. also these types of lights need a few minutes to reach their brightest light, the ballast and bulb must warm up, if this time starts getting longer than your ballast is going out slowly. try changing just the bulb first, cause they cheaper. them move on to the ballast. the socket also has a tab right in the center that can be mashed down after a while, make sure its dead and stick a flat screw driver inther and pry the tab up a little to ensure contact with the bulb. all i can think of for now but let me know if you need more help. these ballast and bulbs are sold by votage and watts and must match for best results, so be careful to buy the right one.
 
yah kinda what i thaught it might be going out. Im going to try a new bulb today when i get home and what sucks is i just bought the ballast in may this year so i have been talking to the person i bought it from and he is giveing me all these instructions like test the socket with a hair dryer clean everything with alchahol change the bulb all sorts of crap and now he wants pictures im hopeing he will replace it soon if i keep jumping threw all these hoops he keeps throwing out sence i bought it less than 90 days ago im just Relly frustrated because my plants are a week into flowering then my HPS broke and now this with the bulb and the new HPS should be in the mail today or at the latest tomarrow then i will test the bulb changeing and hope he will back up his product and send me a replacement
 
an hps has more components to the ballast(starter, capacitor,), so it could be something small but we normally warranty these lamps and ballast for almost a year and use in, let's say a mall parking lot, which is in the weather more than yours. so yeh he should fix it or replace it. but dont let them push you around cause it should last way longer than three months.
 
yah i agree it should last longer... its not a magnettic ballast its a digital so it takes both HPS and MH if that makes a diffrence
 
it does because it adds to its functions, which prob takes components from both types and jams them together. great technology but harder to trouble shoot. sometimes its faster and cheaper to just swap out, in case it takes lots of time trying to find the problem.
 
I just red the fine print and it is warrinted for 2 years i just wonder how they want to go along doing that? do i have to pay shipping both ways or just one way? Do i send it to the distributer i bought it from or someware else
 
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