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Originally Posted by fox_rivers
I ordered a pair of Panasonic ECQ-E2106KF 10uf 250v film capacitors, a 200 ohm 5w and a 30 ohm 5w resistor from Mouser.   I removed the innards of the old ballast and desoldered the copper leads from the pins using a solder sucker.  I placed the resistors on a piece of PCB I cut out of an old power supply and I used this schematic to wire the caps and resistors to the base of the ballast.  I spray painted the metal can for the ballast black and installed the newly rebuilt unit into metal can thus looking awesome. |
Does it generate a lot of heat in operation? It looks like a good solution, one of several ways to deal with these old ballast tubes.