Can you explain what you did to connect the ballasts? My question I guess is do you have to do anything besides flip a switch and change the bulb? I'm most curious if you also have to exchange the power cords running to the base? I would like to be able to switch between two different wattages on the fly but I'm not sure that i can connect both sets of power cords to the same mogul base. Thanks a lot, everything looks very well done!
Hi
Pistoria2001 I set up the ballast like this on the bottom is the biggest
(600W) then in the middle
(400W) and on the top th
(250W) Then I fed the reflectors ballast-connection lead up into the top section and into the ballast area, I made a simple switch (
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) - simerlar to that of an
3 stage AV switch box I fed the reflector onto a Male slot and the
3 ballasts onto
3 seperate female slots and the
3 step switch determines which ballast can power the reflector and appropriate bulb/lamp.
The
3 Power plugs at the back are connected into a 4-way extension lead with remote sensors on them, I can turn them on and off via a remote control I keep velcro'd to the side of my cab.
I was going to faff around trying to fix a 250, 400 and 600 all into the reflector but after planning and research I found not only would the light output be uneven but also the lamp that was in play would damage the unlit lamps !
So its a manual single lamp change, but thanks to the switch on the ballasts and the remote plugs the change of lamp and wattage is pretty easy to do
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!!! Hope this helps - STELTHY
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