Ipower ballast acting up

SmokyLungs

SmokyLungs

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My ipower light keeps turning off after a certain time happened just today I have a timer and noticed my light wasn't on this morning when it should be I found a reset button on the ballast and it will turn on then but after a while the button pops back out and the light is off anybody know what's going on?
 
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MeJuana

MeJuana

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Can you try another bulb? Digital Ballasts have a safety circuit so it might be a bad bulb. I had a bulb recently that would run for 5 minutes then my ballast shut off. So I hooked it to my magnetic ballast and it wigged it out bad I had to rush to kill power. (Swapping the bulb fixed it) Also back in the day I did have a ballast that was bad that did this also so it could be either item.
 
SmokyLungs

SmokyLungs

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MeJuana said:
Can you try another bulb? Digital Ballasts have a safety circuit so it might be a bad bulb. I had a bulb recently that would run for 5 minutes then my ballast shut off. So I hooked it to my magnetic ballast and it wigged it out bad I had to rush to kill power. (Swapping the bulb fixed it) Also back in the day I did have a ballast that was bad that did this also so it could be either item.
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Yeah I switched em and it turned off again when I checked awhile ago I pressed the reset again and its been on for half a hour now hopefully it stops this
 
MeJuana

MeJuana

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Besides the ballast being bad the only other thing that comes to mind is if you interrupt the power even for a split second the ballast will go into safety mode for 10 minutes or so. If it is not a problem with supply current then it doesn't seem too likely it is two bad bulbs in a row that look totally fine.
 
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