Mis-firing bulbs

tecoral · 11/19/2007, 09:16 PM

Well, Ive got about 20 frags coming tomorrow and tried to put in new bulbs for them. Im running MH SE 175s Aqualines on Advance M57s. All 3 bulbs fire, run for about 10-15 sec and go out. One is even running on new, one month old transformer and cap. Ive since put the old bulbs back in and they fire and run normal but they have been running 11 months and Id like to get the new frags under new lights.

Any ideas or other people having issues with these bulbs? I remember when the old bulbs were new they misfired a few times also but stopped doing that after a few trys. The new ones Ive tried firing for about 3 hrs with about a 15-30min rest between trys. What next?

tecoral · 11/20/2007, 02:49 PM

bump^

11/19/2007, 09:16 PM	#1
tecoral Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Here and there Posts: 113	Mis-firing bulbs Well, Ive got about 20 frags coming tomorrow and tried to put in new bulbs for them. Im running MH SE 175s Aqualines on Advance M57s. All 3 bulbs fire, run for about 10-15 sec and go out. One is even running on new, one month old transformer and cap. Ive since put the old bulbs back in and they fire and run normal but they have been running 11 months and Id like to get the new frags under new lights. Any ideas or other people having issues with these bulbs? I remember when the old bulbs were new they misfired a few times also but stopped doing that after a few trys. The new ones Ive tried firing for about 3 hrs with about a 15-30min rest between trys. What next?

11/20/2007, 02:49 PM	#2
tecoral Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Here and there Posts: 113	bump^