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When it's inadvisable to reset lamp timer
Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 10:02 am
by mikro
Is it true that resetting the lamp timer/life to zero and continuing to use an old bulb can damage the ballast or power supply?
Re: When it's inadvisable to reset lamp timer
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 4:21 pm
by Jake
YUP
The reason for that is because...there's an average hours of usage for the lamp. Now if you try to squeeze more hours to a lamp, basically you're forcing the life spawn of the lamp, making your ballast to work the double to ignite the lamp/ keep powered on.
Re: When it's inadvisable to reset lamp timer
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 1:35 pm
by Resist58
How does resetting the lamp hours try to extend the lamps life? It's just a timer, lamps die when they burn out not because the timer extends their life in some way.
Re: When it's inadvisable to reset lamp timer
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:30 pm
by fil29
The timer is only to let you know how long your lamp as been running .The average life of a lamp is between 4500 and 6000hrs . So you can bye another one spare before it ran out.
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 8:15 pm
by AlanfUp