Lights turning off 600 watt phantom ballast please help

[Leftover40oz]

today and yesterday I go to check up on things and my lights are off....got em to stay on yesterday but now it goes through a startup for a couple of minutes then turns off....run and 100% lights are blinking on and off....just tried starting lights without a timer to rule that out and they still turned off after a couple minutes.....phantom 600 w Dimmable ballast

Please help lights been off for almost 3 hours right now...

 

[$bkbbudz$]

Sounds to me like your ballast has seen better days. If you do not have a back up you should probably get on amazon and order with expedited shipping.

Good Luck and Great Growing

 

[Leftover40oz]

Just tried again....lights warmed up for 1 minute 50 seconds....then crapped out

 

[Kcbscrogger]

Yeah, probably the ballast- mine crapped out last year.

 

[$bkbbudz$]

Just tried again....lights warmed up for 1 minute 50 seconds....then crapped out

Sounds to me like your ballast has seen better days. If you do not have a back up you should probably get on amazon and order with expedited shipping.

 

[Leftover40oz]

Fuck....someone please caress me with a tale of how they're lights went out for a day and everything turned out a ok

 

[Kcbscrogger]

Mine were out for about 24 hours before I could get another ballast, everything was fine! You'll be just fine.

 

[Leftover40oz]

New ballast....same problem tonight.

So frustrated you have no idea

 

[Leftover40oz]

Turns out it was the bulb....popped in a bulb from 5 years ago and look at that....staying on no problem....

My extrasun bulb lasted a whopping 2 months...that's why I never would of figured it was the bulb.....hortilux is the only way I guess

 

[nomofatum]

If it's pretty old you may want to check and see if the ballast is clogged with dust. Could be fine but overheating in the ballast.