Garden sox takes 10 minutes to restrike

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Garden sox takes 10 minutes to restrike

Postby Danny » Thu Jan 14, 2016 8:35 pm

Just had a momentary power cut, my back garden sox 55w with vision lamp took 8-10 minutes to restrike which seems rather unusual for SOX!?!?
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Re: Garden sox takes 10 minutes to restrike

Postby AngryHorse » Thu Jan 14, 2016 10:16 pm

What caused the outage?, voltage may have been low when it came back on?
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Re: Garden sox takes 10 minutes to restrike

Postby Danny » Thu Jan 14, 2016 11:42 pm

I dont know. It has been going on and off all day just fr a split second. Voltage was ok everything else cams on ok i think the lamps just slow
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Re: Garden sox takes 10 minutes to restrike

Postby amtrakuk » Fri Jan 15, 2016 7:49 pm

Not sure what's going on with SOX lately. The ones on the A58 keep popping like corn quicker than they can replace them. Could it be a power spike damaged the lamp?
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Re: Garden sox takes 10 minutes to restrike

Postby Nick217 » Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:05 am

Shit lamps.
Not the only area where lanterns have been repaired only to be out again weeks later.
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Re: Garden sox takes 10 minutes to restrike

Postby amtrakuk » Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:46 pm

That sounds about right. Well that's the lamps out for another year. I think they only do a check in the autumn

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