Ok so here I am posting to BRS - and I start to get that smell of burnt rubber/plastic. Go running around the house and end up downstairs by my tank. Sure enough the room is filled with smoke, smoke detectors now going off and my 1 x 250 MH e-ballast is pouring out smoke from the connector.
OH that is just friggin GREAT.
Clear the smoke out of room shut off the smoke detectors and try to figure out what happened and is it salvageable. It appears that there may have been a little corrosion from salt water on the contacts of the plugs causing the connector to arc across the contacts.
Ok take a deep breath - I can fix this.
So on to make the repairs , try to remove the metal end cap on the connector side - it will not budge. So instead of forcing it and causing more damage, go to the other side and remove that end cap.
Only to find this -
This whole friggin ballast is a hermetically sealed giant block of rubber.
So basically I am not sure what to do now. Performing surgery on this thing is going to really suck and may just make things worse.
I love it how they made this thing so nearly impossible to fix.
Anyways that is just my little vent.
Now I guess I really need to get to work on my 72 bow.
What to do for lighting in the mean time ?
I will not be replacing this ballast, after my 72 bow is up this thing was just going to be a backup or maybe for a frag tank.
aaarrrrrrgggggg.
Thanks for listening er reading.
OH that is just friggin GREAT.
Clear the smoke out of room shut off the smoke detectors and try to figure out what happened and is it salvageable. It appears that there may have been a little corrosion from salt water on the contacts of the plugs causing the connector to arc across the contacts.
Ok take a deep breath - I can fix this.
So on to make the repairs , try to remove the metal end cap on the connector side - it will not budge. So instead of forcing it and causing more damage, go to the other side and remove that end cap.
Only to find this -
This whole friggin ballast is a hermetically sealed giant block of rubber.
So basically I am not sure what to do now. Performing surgery on this thing is going to really suck and may just make things worse.
I love it how they made this thing so nearly impossible to fix.
Anyways that is just my little vent.
Now I guess I really need to get to work on my 72 bow.
What to do for lighting in the mean time ?
I will not be replacing this ballast, after my 72 bow is up this thing was just going to be a backup or maybe for a frag tank.
aaarrrrrrgggggg.
Thanks for listening er reading.