So once these occur with your metal halide lamp getting a replacement bulb doesn t have to be your first step.
Ignitor for metal halide lamp ballast.
Capacitor a device used in electric circuitry to temporarily store electrical charge in the form of an electrostatic field.
35 400 watt metal halide mh ballast hx type.
So when you begin to experience rapid flickering dimming buzzing and changing colors the fault could be with the bulb but most times it is a faulty ballast.
A metal halide lamp is an electrical lamp that produces light by an electric arc through a gaseous mixture of vaporized mercury and metal halides compounds of metals with bromine or iodine it is a type of high intensity discharge hid gas discharge lamp.
Although metal halide bulbs are long lasting still they wear out.
Developed in the 1960s they are similar to mercury vapor lamps but contain additional metal halide compounds in the quartz arc tube.
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Halco prolume ign mh2 55909 175 450w mh lamp ignitor.
Metal halide showing 5 of 5 mh high intensity discharge starter.
One evening my 150 watt outdoor metal halide floodlight that i made into a work light as a substitute for your typical 500 watt halogen would not turn on.
From lamp to ballast 105 deg.
Ignitor a device either by itself or in association with other components that generates voltage pulses to start discharge lamps.
Myself having electrical background upon testing the capacitor as well as the ballast determined the ignitor had failed.