Should I blow up a ballast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

[Morepower!]

As you can see by the pics I have the unenviable task of cleaning up my garage. However a long time ago I modded a ballast but damaged some of the components in doing so. Now the more voltage/power I put into it the more power it puts out and is not controllable in any way like my other ones. And I have spent many hours trying to fix it but now I'm done with it. So I have set up a pole to determine it's fate. With the PSU I have I am able to put 616w of input power into it and video it's destruction. So what say you ?

 

[ma_sha1]

Re: Should I blow up a ballaast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

blow it up and let us see the video

 

[2100]

Re: Should I blow up a ballaast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

Blow it up!

 

[mvyrmnd]

Re: Should I blow up a ballaast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

I'm pretty sure that no-one here is going to not tell you to blow it up.

Youtube link, please

 

[Morepower!]

Re: Should I blow up a ballaast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

Well actually upon setting it up on bricks, setting up the video cam, and removing anything combustable I accidently noticed when I had modded it I had inadvertantly broken and pulled off a very tiny copper track. So I won't be blowing it up, well not on purpose yet at least. This also gave me another idea for modding the ballast in my latest dodgy mod even more, which of course I did. I havn't yet measured the bulb wattage as because I havn't done this stuff for quite some time I made a mistake and either blew the fuses or my good DMM. However when hooked to my PSU on low input power is 15.4Vdc @ 5.6A, high is 15.4Vdc @ 17.2A=264W input and some insane amount of light coming out of the front. So I may yet be able to save this ballast, sorry guys.

 

[mvyrmnd]

Re: Should I blow up a ballaast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

TEASE!!!

 

[forexer]

Re: Should I blow up a ballaast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

lol! what kind of automotive hid can withstand 200W of input power?

 

[Morepower!]

Re: Should I blow up a ballaast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

One tht has been extensively modified, see my old thread http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/...extra-18W-Bulb

 

[Morepower!]

Re: Should I blow up a ballaast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

TEASE!!!

Yeah I know sorry, wasn't intentional but it did lead to more power !!

 

[FRITZHID]

Re: Should I blow up a ballaast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

i say milk her for all she worth, & if she dies..... get it on vid!

 

[Morepower!]

Re: Should I blow up a ballaast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

If you knew me you'd know I'm going to milk it for as much as I can get away with, but ALOT of work and time goes into modding these ballasts so if it's controllable I won't be intentionally blowing it up. But once I push it past the 200W mark I will have a video camera going for you, how about that ? I want a 200W+ ballast for my old focusable mod.

 

[FRITZHID]

Re: Should I blow up a ballaast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

If you knew me you'd know I'm going to milk it for as much as I can get away with, but ALOT of work and time goes into modding these ballasts so if it's controllable I won't be intentionally blowing it up. But once I push it past the 200W mark I will have a video camera going for you, how about that ? I want a 200W+ ballast for my old focusable mod.

sounds like a good plan to me MP!:candle: i can't wait to see the results either way!:twothumbs

 

[Illum]

Re: Should I blow up a ballaast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

I take it failed?

 

[Morepower!]

Re: Should I blow up a ballaast I cannot control or just throw it away ?

No it is still going, I just need to modify a solering iron tip to be able to fix it permanently. Or run a short wire to reconnect both sides of the PCB which was the problem, I broke a connection through the board.

 

[ms1496]

I don't know why, but when I read the title of this thread and saw the pictures of your workbench it made me laugh... This is what happens to mad scientists when they start crossing over to the other side :tinfoil:
Too funny...

So to answer your question, Yes! I would be interested too in seeing what happens when you push it

 

[Morepower!]

I don't know why, but when I read the title of this thread and saw the pictures of your workbench it made me laugh... This is what happens to mad scientists when they start crossing over to the other side :tinfoil:
Too funny...

So to answer your question, Yes! I would be interested too in seeing what happens when you push it

LOL, yeah it's a bit of a mess and that's only a bit over half of it. Unfortunately I don't get the time to work on lights as nearly as often as I would like. If this ballast still dosn't behave as it should once I've fixed it properly, and run it hard, I promise destruction on a big scale as I have a 9KV neon sign transformer I might use as a power supply.