Replacing ballasts every 2-3 months ... why???

1212ham said:

I get the use of the washers. LOL
What I don't understand is why would anyone buy an inner tube and make washers when they could just buy some washers at much lower cost?

I've used nuts as standoff spacers, dirt cheap and will provide a bigger air gap and more cooling than thin washers.

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dunno about buying ... but re-purposing, why not/who cares. A cut of rubber 3 ballast-widths long, folded ... pretty thick.

kudos for recycling man, if only more people did it, the world would be a better place to live in

1212ham said:

I get the use of the washers. LOL
What I don't understand is why would anyone buy an innertube and make washers rather than just buying washers at much lower cost?

I've used nuts as standoff spacers, dirt cheap and will provide a bigger air gap and more cooling than thin washers.

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I dont think the idea was to cut washers out of the innertube, but to use them as spacer on each side of the ballast to keep it up and off the board. He has a pic of what he did.

Because Fluence drivers are trash. I don’t know much about their new stuff, but I have a Fluence Spydr 2P 631w and the ballast did the same thing. Within 2 months it was toast! Not to mention the damn driver is HUGE! It’s inside of a case or something…

I will not spend 2-300 on a new Fluence driver, when I can just get a Meanwell or Sohen of the same specs, and never have to worry about it again!

shotnva777 said:

Because Fluence drivers are trash. I don’t know much about their new stuff, but I have a Fluence Spydr 2P 631w and the ballast did the same thing. Within 2 months it was toast! Not to mention the damn driver is HUGE! It’s inside of a case or something…

I will not spend 2-300 on a new Fluence driver, when I can just get a Meanwell or Sohen of the same specs, and never have to worry about it again!

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Now reducing heat with a window AC on one end of the room + fans + two 8" diameter, >600cfm can fans pulling heat out of the room + a portable AC pulling heat out via a 6" diameter hose at the far end.

And moved on from fluence. Since Philips acquired them, they seem to cater to large-scale ops (f the little guy).

I also now look for drivers enclosed in an oversized aluminum casing for additional heat dissapation. Sounds like that's what you're describing.