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Philips RQM-2S40-TPC rapid start ballast. It's impressive how plentyful those ballasts are in Canada! 7 times out of 10 old scrapped fixtures I find have Philips ballasts! Anyway... this specimen still works, although it has the same problem as several others I have, lamps seem to rectify, even brand new ones. Ground fault has been tested, no ground fault (~ 15V from case to ground), so I don't know what could cause this. Keywords: Gear

Philips RQM-2S40-TPC rapid start ballast.

It's impressive how plentyful those ballasts are in Canada! 7 times out of 10 old scrapped fixtures I find have Philips ballasts!

Anyway... this specimen still works, although it has the same problem as several others I have, lamps seem to rectify, even brand new ones. Ground fault has been tested, no ground fault (~ 15V from case to ground), so I don't know what could cause this.

Picture_4.jpg HPIM0332.JPG HPIM0266.JPG HPIM0265.JPG HPIM0235.JPG
File information
Filename:HPIM0266.JPG
Album name:Vince / All my ballasts
Keywords:Gear
Company and Date Manufactured:Philips Electronics - Transformers division of St-Jérôme, Québec
Model Number:RQM-2S40-TPC
Wattage:80W + losses
Lamp Type:Fluorescent
Filesize:735 KiB
Date added:May 19, 2011
Dimensions:2592 x 1944 pixels
Displayed:357 times
Color Space:sRGB
Contrast:0
DateTime Original:2011:05:18 18:48:22
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Exposure Mode:0
Exposure Program:Program
Exposure Time:1/30 sec
FNumber:f/3.6
Flash:No Flash
Focal length:7.5 mm
ISO:263
Light Source:Unknown: 0
Make:Hewlett-packard
Max Aperture:f/3
Model:HP DVC V5061u
URL:http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=6534
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jfrog1983   [May 22, 2011 at 07:47 PM]
Id take some of these to experiment with, im looking for ballasts that rectify.
TiCoune66   [May 22, 2011 at 11:12 PM]
I have plenty of those, even got one more since that pic LOL. Although I need to check again if it does come from the ballast, or if it's possible to solve that problem.
joe_347V   [May 23, 2011 at 12:27 AM]
Yeah it seems that these and the CGEs were pretty common in Canada.
jfrog1983   [May 25, 2011 at 04:09 AM]
Maybe its a bad capacitor or something?
TiCoune66   [May 26, 2011 at 02:26 AM]
Probably. I have the inside wiring diagram of a 2-lamp rapid start ballast, I could check the capacitor with an ohmeter.

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