Raymond810
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- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA
I have a customer who makes portable lighting that telescopes and he uses 1500-watt MH fixtures. The ballasts are mounted in a box below. He is having constant capacitor failures in the ballast housing area, and the capacitors are the round type (dry-film) as opposed to the square oil-filled types. Could it be that these round capacitors are just not robust enough to withstand the voltage drop, heat, etc. Would using the oil-filled, capacitors possibly solve this issue. He has the proper spacing between all the components in the ballast enclosure and there is nothing in the area causing a lot of EMI/RFI that Ive read on here could cause them to fail.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?