Author Topic: Enclosed ballast for 100W mercury (F-Can type)?  (Read 2502 times)
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Re: Enclosed ballast for 100W mercury (F-Can type)? « Reply #15 on: July 17, 2023, 10:55:13 PM » Author: Bottled lightning
I found these on ebay and remembered this thread, they should run 75/80w MV lamps if you disconnect the ignitors.  https://www.ebay.com/itm/374706162798?
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Re: Enclosed ballast for 100W mercury (F-Can type)? « Reply #16 on: July 17, 2023, 11:08:30 PM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
They should be good for 75w H43 mercury vapor lamps, but European 80w mercury vapor lamps will be underdriven quite a bit. Your best bet for running a European 80w mercury vapor lamp is to either use a 70w M98 pulse start metal halide ballast with the ignitor disconnected although the lamp will be slightly overdriven but run within 10% of the rated current and another option is to use a 4 foot to 8 foot T12 HO rapid start fluorescent tube ballast for them with the heating transformer wires disconnected.
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