03-16-2018, 04:22 AM
Wayne,
i wish you a good luck to scent out this electric fault. So keep calm and proceed systematically.
(Last resource when nerves were run down and before going mad: take a car battery, a set of jumper cables and a fire extinguisher. Look, listen, smell where the holy smoke raises.
Last time i used this brute method i detected a tiny flat piece of metal so unfortunately embedded into the ballast, that it caused only a partial short. And because it was embedded into the ballast there was no chance to detect it by looking. At least i had luck that the high current melted the contact points of this ยง&?@! piece with a flash and and a bang. So only tip the jumper to the rails.)
i wish you a good luck to scent out this electric fault. So keep calm and proceed systematically.
(Last resource when nerves were run down and before going mad: take a car battery, a set of jumper cables and a fire extinguisher. Look, listen, smell where the holy smoke raises.
Last time i used this brute method i detected a tiny flat piece of metal so unfortunately embedded into the ballast, that it caused only a partial short. And because it was embedded into the ballast there was no chance to detect it by looking. At least i had luck that the high current melted the contact points of this ยง&?@! piece with a flash and and a bang. So only tip the jumper to the rails.)