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Hey all, I jus tpicked up an All-Glass Aquarium 55/56 watt power compact light. 8000
Anyway. I have an Advanced standard electronic ballast made for up to 4x40 watts tubes OR u-bent tubes. I know I can run this bulb and I assume I will have to overdrive it using 2 power wires. Basically, the ballast has 4 power wires (2 red, 2 blue) and 2 ground (yellow) wires. Do I treat this bulb like it were a regular tube, just bent in half. I am assuming I should use 2 power wires and 1 ground, bridged to connect to 2 terminals. By description sucks so I will give an example. THe light in question is straight pin, there does not appear to be any indication of polarity so I assume it is just like a normal florescent tube, bent in half.
Should I wire it thusly?
there are 4 pins in a straight configuration:
x x x x
Y
R R
the small Y in parenthesis is a tag from 1 yellow ground
The R indicate the 2 red power wires.
Does this make sense?
Should I wire it thusly?
there are 4 pins in a straight configuration:
x x x x
Y
the small Y in parenthesis is a tag from 1 yellow ground
The R indicate the 2 red power wires.
Does this make sense?