JamesC
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I have a 120cm Arcadia Luminaire which holds 4x 54W T5 tubes, two banks of two switched independently. The other day much to my sadness one of the banks stopped working so is now only running on half power. I've removed the luminaire and hooked up some old T8's for the time being.
As there is no way I can afford a new luminaire I've decided to have a go at fixing this one. Dismantling was fairly straight forward and looking inside it looks fairly straight forward as well. All there is are two ballasts and some wiring. I've checked all the wiring connections to no avail so I'm now guessing one of the ballasts has gone. They are Helvar EL2x54s and a quick Google search came up with this - http://www.bltdirect.com/product.php?pid=6018&nm=Helvar+T5+High+Frequency+Ballast&cat=509 which is exactly the same as the one I've got. Going to take the plunge and buy one and see if it works.
Anyone else ever done this before? I'll update this thread with my progress.
Here are a couple of photo's of the luminaires internals and the ballast.
James
As there is no way I can afford a new luminaire I've decided to have a go at fixing this one. Dismantling was fairly straight forward and looking inside it looks fairly straight forward as well. All there is are two ballasts and some wiring. I've checked all the wiring connections to no avail so I'm now guessing one of the ballasts has gone. They are Helvar EL2x54s and a quick Google search came up with this - http://www.bltdirect.com/product.php?pid=6018&nm=Helvar+T5+High+Frequency+Ballast&cat=509 which is exactly the same as the one I've got. Going to take the plunge and buy one and see if it works.
Anyone else ever done this before? I'll update this thread with my progress.
Here are a couple of photo's of the luminaires internals and the ballast.
James