I've got a Topeak Moonshine HID bike light that uses thw WA 10w HID & ballast does anyone know where I can get a replacement PCB board for it or is it possible to replace it with the Trailtech PCB (as the lamps use the same parts)
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"unfortunately" it is so simple, nearly noone I have told yet, believes it.what causes the HID to strike its initial arc? is it in the control circuit or in the lamp?
"unfortunately" it is so simple, nearly anyone I have told yet, believes it.
There is the driver that steps-up the battery voltage to the roughly 65 V the HID bulb needs and - mounted parallel - a Voltage Multipier (Greinacher or Villard cascade)
As long as the arc does not work, the power goes to the Greinacher, till the voltage is high enough that there is a strike.
Again the arc does not start - the next spark form the Greinacher
every time there is a strike, the gap between the contacts "looses resistance" and at some time the arc stands,
more and more power goes to the normal step-up and the HID "goes off"
better call it the "ballast",all these are happening in the "igniter"
what causes the HID to strike its initial arc? is it in the control circuit or in the lamp?
The Trailtech bike HIDs are similar with a small control circuit board that contains battery level LEDs & a switch - is this just that or does it have anything to do with striking the arc in the lamp?
Thanks for that, I found on another forum that there is an upgrade using the WA NGX series of ballasts that contain the voltage reg circuit so have a much wider input range & are also more efficient.
http://www.walamp.com/lpd/webstore/detail.tpl?partnumber=B10R001
http://www.walamp.com/lpd/webstore/detail.tpl?partnumber=M10P003
I'm looking to do a group buy to the UK of these lamp/ballasts to share the shipping charges.
nice prices in those links.
Has the bulb been updated in output? Because I never liked the 10 W HID and now - with MC-E and P7 - dont think it makes any sense to go the way more expensive 10 W HID route.
Posted yours today Steve.
These NGX's don't half chuck out some light compared to the older Solarcs!