Airwalker16
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I just wish I understood the diagram, which numbers correlate to either Line or Neutral. Anyone know?
For the bulbs it doesn't matters! As you know you can turn the bulbs inside the sockets by 360° and they get contact with every 180°. They run with AC/50-60Hz this means L and N doesn't matter.I just wish I understood the diagram, which numbers correlate to either Line or Neutral. Anyone know?
Ya, but how can I hook the outputs of two on one ballast to only one of a second ballast to get 108w?For the bulbs it doesn't matters! As you know you can turn the bulbs inside the sockets by 360° and they get contact with every 180°. They run with AC/50-60Hz this means L and N doesn't matter.
Do it exactly like you see in in the diagram and push the wires in the corresponding sides of the bulb sockets. You have such a socket with 2 poke in connectors on each end of the bulbs.
WTF?
Stop fucking around with high voltage that you have no understanding of, you are going to hurt yourself. Go speak to an electrician and let them sort it out. A fluro ballast is nothing like an LED driver. Don't try and make them do something they are not supposed to do.WTF?
I didn't ask for a lecture.Stop fucking around with high voltage that you have no understanding of, you are going to hurt yourself. Go speak to an electrician and let them sort it out. A fluro ballast is nothing like an LED driver. Don't try and make them do something they are not supposed to do.
Don't bother about him. He makes a habbit of being rude to people.I didn't ask for a lecture.
Thanks keesje. I just wish I knew a definitive answer or maybe someone who has done it before.Don't bother about him. He makes a habbit of being rude to people.
He also makes some ridiculous claims (about fake eggs in China and that 500 companies in China copied his designs. Telling that he will show with pics when he is less busy. blablabla)
Perhaps he knows a lot about led, but he is speaking so much nonsense as well that it is hard to tell truth from lies.
Ya eevblog reccomends to not do it. But shit, 5 2lamp t8 ballasts for $14 ain't a bad deal and I think I will just use them to build 2 4 bulb fixtures and use 2 normal t8 fluoros, 1 led that I have, and a 5.0reptisun in each fu tire for veg.I think the fluoros are fired with a voltage surge. Are you certain the t8 ballast operates at the same voltage and current after the initial fire up as what the t5 requires? What about firing voltage of the t8 ballast and what the t5 requires?
LED use DC, and most fluoro use AC, so I'm still confused how these ballasts are interchangeable and how it knows whether what type of bulb it has in it. I guess maybe the LED tubes have on board rectifiers and drivers??
In the pic of your LED tube with only 1 wire, I'm assuming the other end has another wire in the other receptacle end allowing the current to circulate.
If using LED tubes driven by a fluoro ballast, I actually think you're wasting energy, or is less effecient. I think you are powering a ballast ontop of your LED tube rectifier/driver.
If you wire your fluoros in series your firing voltage is divided and not sure how that will effect the turn on.
Dafuq pricing you looking at?I use (4) UVB150s in a 4× 4, I'd opt for the UVB200s but 3× the money isn't worth the small bumb in intensity for me personally.