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Self Ballasting LPS! Screw in LPS! CLPS! Yep, had the NERVE to make a self ballasting LPS out of a CFL ballast and some CFL parts!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I tried using 13 watt CFL ballast at first it seemed to warm up too slowly and seemed a bit too dim....this one runs at 19 watts, I think may still be slightly underpowered...not sure though.....I'll have to compare side by side with an actual LPS ballast. This case, it seems to warm up a bit differently than the normal ballast.....instead of warming up from the ends to the middle...this case it seems to warm up more evenly starting with the walls of the tube to the middle of the tubes! Oh I used an European socket I got from Sean who lives in Africa. Keywords: Light_Humor!

Self Ballasting LPS! Screw in LPS! CLPS!

Yep, had the NERVE to make a self ballasting LPS out of a CFL ballast and some CFL parts!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I tried using 13 watt CFL ballast at first it seemed to warm up too slowly and seemed a bit too dim....this one runs at 19 watts, I think may still be slightly underpowered...not sure though.....I'll have to compare side by side with an actual LPS ballast.

This case, it seems to warm up a bit differently than the normal ballast.....instead of warming up from the ends to the middle...this case it seems to warm up more evenly starting with the walls of the tube to the middle of the tubes! Oh I used an European socket I got from Sean who lives in Africa.

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Album name:Jace the Gull / My handmade lights!
Keywords:Light_Humor!
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Date added:Dec 31, 2012
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streetlight98   [Dec 31, 2012 at 02:10 AM]
Homebrew eh? Totally awesome! Very Happy
TiCoune66   [Dec 31, 2012 at 02:49 AM]
Wait, do you run this lamp base-down? Shocked
chrislights71   [Dec 31, 2012 at 02:52 AM]
Wow! nice Cool
GullWhiz   [Dec 31, 2012 at 03:01 AM]
One advice.....don't take the LPS lamp off the CFL ballast socket while running....or the EOL feature in the CFL ballast will strike.....which it did in my case.....
vaporeyes   [Dec 31, 2012 at 03:20 AM]
Interesting. I would expect a 23w CFL ballast would run an 18w SOX lamp reasonably well, though I don't know for how long. I would suggest NOT running this lamp base-down - not good for SOX lamps!
A_lights   [Dec 31, 2012 at 03:50 AM]
Woah man those will fail very quick running base down, only use horizontal or base up
joe_347V   [Dec 31, 2012 at 05:08 AM]
Interesting although I'm not sure if running LPS base down is too good for it.
rjluna2   [Dec 31, 2012 at 12:45 PM]
Nice experiment, Jace! Very Happy
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Jan 01, 2013 at 12:28 AM]
Cool!
yuandrew   [Jan 07, 2013 at 06:41 AM]
Neat Job.

I had a similar idea as well but I was going to offset the ballast to one side similar to a Enertron 3000 series CFL adapter to make it more compact. Anyway, for an 18 watt LPS, I believe a 23 watt CFL board should work nicely but brands could vary.

Besides the Fulham WH-2, I also tried a Greenlite 18 watt CFL ballast (dropped and broke the spiral a while back, kept the bottom) and a 25 watt Buffalo which I butchered for the project. The 18 watt was very under-driven and only drew 14 watts according to my kill-a-watt and the 25 watt seems to work nicely but I feel it was slightly over-driven (I recalled it warmed up very quickly).
Mercuryvapor123   [Jan 24, 2013 at 08:55 PM]
That is soo cool !! Very Happy

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