Re: Street light ballasts

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Original poster: "Allanh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <allanh-at-starband-dot-net>

Series won't help, parrallel might.

allan

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Subject: Re: Street light ballasts


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> Original poster: "Andy Cobaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> Nick
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> I also have seen light ballasts in the heavy metal dumpster at the local
> recycling center.  The ones I found had 330VAC 8uF caps on them.  There
were
> a total of 40, I kept the 40 caps and 5 of the transformers.  The caps
> should be good for PFC, the windings in the transformers could be used as
an
> inductive ballast, but not sure how they would hold up.  It looks like the
> ones I have use small gauge wire, but paralleling them then putting them
in
> series might work????
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> Cheers,
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> Andy C.
> Internet Homepage: http://users.rcn-dot-com/tcobaugh/
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