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Slightly Rusty Crompton Sovereign - Ballast Literally just pulled the cover open as it was waffer thin! Will it work? Place your bets now... Update, it works!: [url=http://80.229.24.59:9232/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=10595][u]Powering up (Video)[/u][/url] Picture of the [url=http://80.229.24.59:9232/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=10586][u]fitting[/u][/url]

Slightly Rusty Crompton Sovereign - Ballast

Literally just pulled the cover open as it was waffer thin! Will it work? Place your bets now...

Update, it works!: Powering up (Video)

Picture of the fitting

IMG_20190309_213831-1.jpg Sovereign_Startup-3.mp4 IMG_20190307_152509.jpg IMG_20190307_152251.jpg IMG_20190305_162005.jpg
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Filename:IMG_20190307_152509.jpg
Album name:fluorescent / Control Gear
Manufacturer:Crompton
Type/Model:Sovereign
Wattage:65w + losses
Filesize:2321 KiB
Date added:07 Mar, 2019
Dimensions:2080 x 1170 pixels
Displayed:75 times
URL:http://80.229.24.59:9232/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=10587
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Slyspark   [07 Mar, 2019 at 05:16 PM]
Probably still works! Many of these left where you work - can you get hold of any gear from them?
Danny   [07 Mar, 2019 at 05:18 PM]
Yes ill say it will
FrontSideBus   [07 Mar, 2019 at 05:42 PM]
Depends if the expanding rusting iron core had compromised the insulation on the windings...
AngryHorse   [07 Mar, 2019 at 09:20 PM]
Never seen a batten so bad before!
fluorescent   [07 Mar, 2019 at 10:43 PM]
@Slyspark, this was found in a friends soggy shed along with another much less rusty Sovereign, no more there sadly

@AngryHorse, Yes it's bad! I got this from the same place where the other Transtar ballasted Sovereign came from a couple of days ago, but this fitting looked so bad that I chucked it straight in my scrap pile. Curiosity caused me to have a look at it today and I can't believe the ballast and series capacitor still work fine (at least for now)
Slyspark   [07 Mar, 2019 at 10:47 PM]
Ah, fair play!
fluorescent   [16 Apr, 2020 at 09:50 PM]
For anyone that may have missed it, I refurbished this ballast and it has been in regular use since in a Crompton Star clicky

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