Customer Reviews
It worked great on my 135W SOX lamp. The 180W lamp had a few issues: The ballast would ignite it but, after a few minutes, the red LED came on and I had to power cycle it. Then it ran longer and finally stayed on. It seemed to run a bit hot but I would expact that with a 180W lamp on it. The lamp id finally come up but one side, near the electrodes, never got as bright as the rest of the lamp. I only rn this lamp for about 15 mintues and it is a brand new lamp. It is an Osram lamp. The lamp was running perfectly horizontal the entire time. I intend to order several more ballasts, sockets, and a few lamps within a week or so. I have successfully converted 4 small fixtures to 18W SOX (from 150-175W MV/ HID) and 3 Hubbell 400W HID fixtures to 35W SOX using Glow Object ballasts. All work great! I am now concerting a couple Philips and Thorn street lights to glow object ballasts from the original 230V European iron ballasts. I hope to convert a 135W and a 180W lamp as well but do want to better understand what is happening with the 180W lamp and ballast. Finally, I have a couple old Thomas darkroom safelights that I have converted to electronic ballast. These are both 35W SOX. The now 40+ year old ballast run hot and are noisy. The glow object ballast fixes that right up albeit it is very difficult to get inside of those old Thomas safelights to do the work.Patience and tools.....
Awesome