High Pressure Sodium Yard light when air conditioner turns light momentarily turns of

[stj]

Re: High Pressure Sodium Yard light when air conditioner turns light momentarily turn

these look well designed - but they are directional - ok for high-bay lamps but not for side-reflector housings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjCYtJ9k2Y4

[Topcat]

Re: High Pressure Sodium Yard light when air conditioner turns light momentarily turn

I've got 2 ceiling light fixtures that are identical housing 2 bulbs each. Now in one light fixture one certain A19 holder eats LED bulbs for breakfast. I put a old CCFL back in and no problems at all. Go figure.

I had the same problem with the fart fan over my shower. LED bulb, lucky to get a week out of it. CFL or Incandescent, no problems.

[sam_sam_sam]

Re: High Pressure Sodium Yard light when air conditioner turns light momentarily turn

Buying LED modular lighting fixtures are hit and miss type of thing the problem is that you do not know if you are buying good quality ones or crap ones

[sam_sam_sam]

Re: High Pressure Sodium Yard light when air conditioner turns light momentarily turn

Well just recently I had another issue with my high pressure sodium light by the street this one has worked for several years with out any issues until it just would not turn on

You can hear the transformer humming a little bit but it was not lighting up at all at first I thought it was a bad transformer but I put a different one in there and it still did not work transformer still humming a little bit so I changed the circuit board that fires the light bulb and that did not help either it turns out that the bulb had some type of issue that I had not seen before because I put bulb in my other fixture and it would flicker a few times and has a strange blue color and then flicker again a few times and even in this fixture the transformer was humming a little where as the original bulb works with out the transformer humming

I just replaced the transformer and the circuit board that fires a metal halide bulb that is 100 watt version only because I had a new transformer and circuit board for I just need a bulb for it

[stj]

Re: High Pressure Sodium Yard light when air conditioner turns light momentarily turn

well i just replaced the led lamp in my hallway for the second time this year.

plastic, aluminium, tin, copper etc to the landfill and it cost 3x the price of an incan.
but i'm saving the enviroment if you believe the fucking politicians!

[sam_sam_sam]

I have come to the conclusion that the high pressure sodium yard light that was cycling when the air conditioning would turn on well turned out that there must be something wrong with the transformer because I found the other new transformer with the new ballast ( in one of the storage containers ) and used an old bulb that the fixture would cycle of when the air conditioner would come on it does not do this now not only that but the bulb gets bright faster than the old transformer and ballast plus if you unplug it when it gets to full brightness then wait a minute and plug it back into power again it gets bright very fast the other on would flicker a bunch of times and maybe restart again

I know that this is an old post but because of me getting home when it is dark again I need to get this light fixture working again
I had time to find it because I been off from work since Thursday for thanksgiving and will go back to work Monday morning again

One note the florescent light that has the electronic ballast the bulb went out twice in very short time so who knows what is causing this situation I sure would like to know because I have two of them that are exactly the same one of them work great the other one is a problem child I will have to investigate this more thoroughly when I put the high pressure sodium light fixture back out there and take the fluorescent light fixture back off again

[sam_sam_sam]

Well I finally put the light fixture together but decided not use the low profile yard light because it close to the street and other one that is close to the street is the same style so they complement each other plus the tall version has the external photo eye that is electronic version I just have to replace the light pole that I have the fixture because it has rotated away and I do not want to have to do this twice

[sam_sam_sam]

I took a look at florescent controller board the main filtering capacitor had popped up the top of the capacitor I will have to see if I have a 47uf@250 volt one that will fit in the space that is a lotted for the capacitor in question other wise I will have to purchase some when I place a Dig-key order for some other parts for other things that need to be repaired

[sam_sam_sam]

This project was a success I now have a very good working high pressure sodium yard light that I rebuilt so hopefully it will last for at another 5 years or more I hope it will

[sam_sam_sam]

I took a look at florescent controller board the main filtering capacitor had popped up the top of the capacitor I will have to see if I have a 47uf@250 volt one that will fit in the space that is a lotted for the capacitor in question other wise I will have to purchase some when I place a Dig-key order for some other parts for other things that need to be repaired

Well I installed the new capacitor and there was a pop noise and it blew the main fuse on the board it going to be used as parts for the remaining board that is in service now

Not worth the time to investigating what has happened to it no real obvious damage that could see I might look at it again with a magnifying glass and see if I find anything doing this