light blown.. emergency

[bbud666]

hi peoples.. i had a 1 second power outage about an hour ago and ever since my light( 400w HPS) blows the mains everytime i turn it on.. the bulb is fine. i changed the main power lead to the light in the faint hope that was it but no.. so im guessing a power surge has blown something.. can any1 tell me if this can be fixed or is the light just fucked i and im up for a new 1.. please help.. thanks all. bbud

[Crunchy]

i dont think it'd be the bulb... though i cant say for sure..

maybe the fuse on the switch controlling the power to the light is damaged and not allowing the same amount of ampage through or something? i dunno, im baked as

[420 HELI]

1 second power outage sounds like a power surge.

I would suspect your ballast may be the cause if there was no surge protection. Get it checked out.

 

Bad luck man hope you get something sorted.

 

[bbud666]

hey guys.. thanks for the help.. it was the ballast.. its toast. i took it to my stepfather and he went over it all with his multi meter and played tech heads with it..... the capacitor and ignitor are fine but the ballast has 0 resistance.. i was actually in the process of removing a surge protector from another room to put in there when it happened.. fucked up timing huh..... but not to worry. i got hold of the manufacturer who put me in touch with a local distributor and am picking up the new ballast tomorrow.. just have to the 2 or 3 wires to it and im back in buissness.. ive got my babies in the clone room for the time being under the clone lights ( grow lux and cool white flouros), not ideal but better than nothing i spose and they still got 2 or 3 weeks of veg left so it hopefully all will be good come tomorrow.. so thanks again for all the help on here and in the chatroom last night..

[bufo marinus]

That is very unusual, the ballast hardly ever shits itself, keep posting till that lamp fires up as this info is great reference.

What brand of control gear?