Heya gang! Sorry for the absence. I have kind of been through a mini-torture gauntlet, spending the last couple days insheer misery sincemy little squid-fushing outin, most of that time bed ridden. Hopefully on the mend now, with around 7 or 8 pages to get caught up on it seems.
But first things first:
@Events:
I have only completed partial sress runs on the ballasts and here is what I have so far. All full length tests run at a 21/3 schedule btw, set at either 1000 or 1040 Watts. Also, Friday is the day I will reconfig the testing to use another hood and lamp; for this first set of test results to be meaningful I wanted to only change 1 or 2 variables per test run.
BALLAST 1:
TEST 1 (Power up /power down tests, disconnecting and reconnecting each time)
-1. Connect lamp cord to ballast 2.Connect power cord 3.Modify Watts setting if needed. 4.Record result. 5.Disconnect lamp. 6.Disconnect power cord. Note in about 1/3 of these tests I reversed the last 2 steps to identify any pattern in behavior, without success.
- Results: 1 failure ("E-04") and the other 5 suceeded.
TEST 2 (Power up /power down tests, with NO disconnecting and reconnecting each time)
- Results: 6 successes, 0 failures.
- TEST 3 (Full cycle runs, kicked off back to back (no disconnect,reconnect) when it did start fine with no E-04 code)
- Results: 2 successful runs
BALLAST 2 (worst damaged, part rolling around loose inside)
TEST 1 (Power up /power down tests, disconnecting and reconnecting each time)
-1. Connect lamp cord to ballast 2.Connect power cord 3.Modify Watts setting if needed. 4.Record result. 5.Disconnect lamp. 6.Disconnect power cord. Note in about 1/3 of these tests I reversed the last 2 steps to identify any pattern in behavior, without success.
- Results: 5 failures ("E-04") and the other 1 suceeded.
TEST 2 (Power up /power down tests, with NO disconnecting and reconnecting each time)
- Results: Partial test as the last test had such a high percentage of failures): 2 successes, 2 failures.
- TEST 3 (Full cycle runs, kicked off back to back (no disconnect,reconnect) when it did start fine with no E-04 code)
- Results: NA for now. This test was not run yet as the prior test had suchanenormously high reliability failure rate.
BALLAST 3
TEST 1 (Power up /power down tests, disconnecting and reconnecting each time)
-1. Connect lamp cord to ballast 2.Connect power cord 3.Modify Watts setting if needed. 4.Record result. 5.Disconnect lamp. 6.Disconnect power cord. Note in about 1/3 of these tests I reversed the last 2 steps to identify any pattern in behavior, without success.
- Results: 5 failure ("E-04") and the other 2 suceeded One extra test performed.)
TEST 2 (Power up /power down tests, with NO disconnecting and reconnecting each time)
- Results: 5 successes, 1 failure.
- TEST 3 (Full cycle runs, kicked off back to back (no disconnect,reconnect) when it did start fine with no E-04 code)
- Results: Kicked offround.1 tonight, second run at 1000W will conclude around 11 pm Wednesday night
Again,next round of tesggs will begin Wednesday night and another hood, socket, power cord and bulb will be used to test the 3 ballasts again.
Thanks!