Hi all,

I wish to acquire the aforementioned ballast. I can get one pretty easily on eBay, but I figure I would inquire here in case anyone has one they wouldn't mind getting rid of. If you do, I'd love to hear from you. I'd be good for either paying or a trade (although I doubt I have anything anyone would want to trade for). The ballast will be used to power an MV lamp, so I won't need the capacitor or ignitor.

With this being said, if anyone actually has a 50W MV ballast that they would ship off to a good home, I'd be interested, as well (although that's a VERY unlikely case   ).

Thanks.

I wish to acquire the aforementioned ballast. I can get one pretty easily on eBay, but I figure I would inquire here in case anyone has one they wouldn't mind getting rid of. If you do, I'd love to hear from you. I'd be good for either paying or a trade (although I doubt I have anything anyone would want to trade for). The ballast will be used to power an MV lamp, so I won't need the capacitor or ignitor.

These are hard to come by and the few on ebay are overpriced. For us canucks this is mostly due to the high cost for Priority shipping. I have a Universal Lighting 50w M110 kit lamp Cat. No. M50MLTlTLC3M and it's a 4tap (120/208/240/277V) HX-HPF autotransformer ballast. I could part with it for $35 shipping included from Montreal to New Brunswick. Let me know if interested.

Hi,

Does the ballast come with the capacitor, or does it even require one? Advance states that their unit doesn't require the capacitor to function normally, but I can't find anything from Universal regarding this.

I couldn't find anything as well. The ballast is quad-tap and has a tap for a 6mfd capacitor. I would leave everything as it is, so you can plug a 50w MH or experiment with a MV lamp.

$35 USD paypal for what you see OR $35 CAD if you can send me a personal check from a Canadian bank, shipped from the Montreal area as soon as payment is cleared. PM me for details or use the email on pics.

Yep, I see a cap and an ignitor.  I'll message you!

I picked up the package today! Thanks again! And thanks for packing it so well - I had to wrestle it out of its wraps! I tried it on my mercury vapor lamp, and it works beautifully. It actually overdrives it quite a bit, with the lamp doing almost 70 watts (so it would probably be more suitable for a 75 watt lamp), but I found that running a 250 watt incandescent lamp in series with the ballast (basically running it on only 100 volts instead of 120) brought the current down to a good level.

Yep 75 is the known wattage of MV lamp that runs correctly on a 50w MH ballast.
250w incandescent lamp in series, like this??

120V:_____Blk:250W-Inc:Wht_____Blk:50w-MH:Wht____:COM

Yep, the incandescent lamp is connected in between the outlet and the ballast. I have it connected on the neutral side just to reduce the number of contact points on the hot side. The voltage measured across the ballast in this configuration is about 100V. I'll see if I can squeeze both the ballast and the incandescent lamp into my fixture.