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Old 12-29-2016, 02:49 PM
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So to resurrect this discussion, if you use a ballast like this one AND have diodes in place of the seleniums, is a dropping resistor required?



The set's running fine, but that 30 ohm resistor starts to smoke after about a minute.....
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