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| I bought a 50w mh ballast kit since it was a great deal, and we'll see if it makes it into my country. Honestly the fact that this is even a concern is very disappointing.
It'd be very helpful if there was a detailed guideline list by ebay I could read to know which lamps and gear I apparently don't have the right to own anymore.
If anyone finds an official guideline list about this lamp ban by ebay, post it as a new topic and I'll pin it to the relevant forum board, so that members can access it, and help them decide if they should chance a potential purchase.
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| I just bought one of the clear Halarcs !
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| Talk to the seller/LG member , Maybe you can work out a really nice deal !!
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Cool lamps! Its nice to see HID lamps with their own type of personal ballast.  |
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LEDs are like an apocalypse! They slowly take over the world wiping out every other type of lamp and fixture!
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| Detailed guts photo, anyone? There was a lamp with a broken ballast filament, nothing to lose by opening it...
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I gave that one away to Alights, so he'll need to decide whether to disassemble it or keep it intact. We do at least have a photo from James and a photo from DimBulb of a transparent prototype. |
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There are also two groups of photos on Smithsonian. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1301514 and https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_751254First one look like some rough prototype, but has a straight image of board conductors, albeit in very poor quality. My goal is to try to build a clone of Halarc ballast for fun. Hard to get a proper DC lamp, but I suspect a regular modern cheap Chinese NaSc lamp of Venture style will work on DC at least for some time. Schematics looks rather simple. I can ID a classic looking ignition transformer, some diodes (may be also ignition SIDAC), one single small plastic transistor or SCR in TO92 case, a larger transistor or SCR in TO220 on that prototype board, a large electrolytic of 50uF, couple of power resistors, some small capacitors, and one or two thermal fuses. By the way, what happened with James' Lamptech site today?? |
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@ RRK: Thanks to Tim, we have two of the DC lamps, one cap up and one cap down. |
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| And where are the pictures?
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Here they are: base up and base down versions |
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