danthexenonorc
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Hello all, any help on this topic would be deeply appreciated, thank you for your time!
I am in the process of making a 575w HMI (Hydrargyrum Medium-arc Iodide lamp) flashlight, but I would like some help on some questions I have regarding the ballast/power supply. The bulb I will be using is a Osram 575w HMI lamp. The batteries will be eight 5.5 ampere at 4s LiPos, with a total of 633 Wh. I plan to use a parabolic reflector which a I scored off of Ebay just 4 years ago as a 550w xenon locator. The reflector was manufactured by Optical Radiation Corporation in Azusa California(my favorite lamp supply manufacturer), and is 6 ¼ inches in diameter. So this is where my two questions for you incredibly intelligible flashlight freaks comes in; can I use a Nanolux 600w Mh ballast to run the HMI, and if not, what could I use as an alternative. This would help me incredibly. I have seen some people use a 600w Mh ballast to run a 575w HMI just fine, but other say that they tried it and it would work for 30 seconds, then it would flicker and turn off. Also, I am running a 800w inverter off of the 633 Wh worth of LiPos in order to power the Nanolux digital ballast. The operating voltage of the HMI is about 95v at 7a. The ballast provides around 120v, is this ok for the HMI? Will this setup even work?
~Danilo Rosich
P.S. I will post some pictures of the reflector this weekend, and pictures of the lamp, batteries, and inverter once they come.
I am in the process of making a 575w HMI (Hydrargyrum Medium-arc Iodide lamp) flashlight, but I would like some help on some questions I have regarding the ballast/power supply. The bulb I will be using is a Osram 575w HMI lamp. The batteries will be eight 5.5 ampere at 4s LiPos, with a total of 633 Wh. I plan to use a parabolic reflector which a I scored off of Ebay just 4 years ago as a 550w xenon locator. The reflector was manufactured by Optical Radiation Corporation in Azusa California(my favorite lamp supply manufacturer), and is 6 ¼ inches in diameter. So this is where my two questions for you incredibly intelligible flashlight freaks comes in; can I use a Nanolux 600w Mh ballast to run the HMI, and if not, what could I use as an alternative. This would help me incredibly. I have seen some people use a 600w Mh ballast to run a 575w HMI just fine, but other say that they tried it and it would work for 30 seconds, then it would flicker and turn off. Also, I am running a 800w inverter off of the 633 Wh worth of LiPos in order to power the Nanolux digital ballast. The operating voltage of the HMI is about 95v at 7a. The ballast provides around 120v, is this ok for the HMI? Will this setup even work?
~Danilo Rosich
P.S. I will post some pictures of the reflector this weekend, and pictures of the lamp, batteries, and inverter once they come.