Feeling hot hot hot!

Here you see the darkened paint on the casing of a Crompack fixture that came to me with a burned out Philips/Crompton 'block' ballast. The paint on the inside around the ballast had mostly blistered off and had to be sanded & repainted. The ballast looked like it had been on fire for a short while.

This is what happens when lighting circuits are protected by rather large fuses which get replaced several times as they keep blowing without investigating.

The fixture is now repaired and working again

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Keiron

[08 Aug, 2017 at 11:47 PM]

Job well done Smile

Liam

[09 Aug, 2017 at 12:48 AM]

I spotted a 1970's Beta 5 lantern in the skip at work that has had a ballast fire, the smell was horrible and worst thing is i touched the lantern before realizing and the stink staid on my hands for a good 3 days after no matter how many times i washed them.

Kev

[09 Aug, 2017 at 03:50 PM]

Poor beta 5 Liam mind you done 45 years I suppose! Cool

fluorescent

[10 Aug, 2017 at 10:29 PM]

I wonder how many years service this Crompack has done? 40 years would make it 1977, which would be about right I think?

Danny

[10 Aug, 2017 at 11:44 PM]

Any dates on the capacitor?

fluorescent

[25 Aug, 2017 at 06:10 PM]

Says 1966 on the capacitor, but that's the British Standard date, not manufactured date

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