[Awibrandy]

Hi guys, I purchased a used light fixture that has a bad ballast. I thought it would simply mean that I would just plug in my ballast, found out it is not that simple.
Can someone help me out with the exchange Please?

The original ballast on the fixture is a coralife 2-lamp vho electronic ballast kit Model AF907, I want to replace it with my old Icecap 660. I am not electronically gifted. When I purchased my Ice cap the person that sold it to me wired it for me. The Ice cap is currently wired for 4-48" bulbs, the coralife is wired for 2-72" bulbs.

[Pedro]

here you go.

http://www.icecapinc.com/660-2.htm

And just in case you want to do other configurations, they are on their site.

[fritz]

It's actually not that bad to do. I know nothing about electricty and I wired it wrong probably 4 times before I got it right. The icecap ballast comes with built in circuitry that won't fire if you wire it wrong so it keeps you from blowing anything up.

[Awibrandy]

Thank you guys! The first thing I have to figure out is how to open the fixture so I can disconnect the old Coralife wires, and replace them with the Ice cap wires. If I can do that then I think I can do the wiring as per the site Pedro gave me.
Question, Do I have to replace the endcaps as well? As you can see, it is not just wiring the Ice cap that I am talking about.
How do I take apart the light fixture? Do I gut the whole thing out, and then replace everything?

[fritz]

I would leave the existing wiring and endcaps and start from the ballast. Open it up carefully and find the ballast. Cut the wires near the ballast and replace the ballast with the icecap. A bit of warning here, the icecap ballast will most likely be too large to fit inside the fixture. You may need to figure out another way to do this.

[Awibrandy]

Quote: Originally Posted by fritz I would leave the existing wiring and endcaps and start from the ballast. Open it up carefully and find the ballast. Cut the wires near the ballast and replace the ballast with the icecap. A bit of warning here, the icecap ballast will most likely be too large to fit inside the fixture. You may need to figure out another way to do this.

Thanks Fritz,
Can I really just cut the wires to the coralife ballast, and splize the icecap wires to it? Is it really that simple? Ballast to this fixture is on the outside so no need to worry about fitting the icecap ballast into the fixture. Hope I don't end up blowing up the house here.

[FRY]

most of your ballast has 2 yellow wires going to one end of each lamp and 2 blues going to other end and 2 reds going to other lamp,with ice cap you have 2 yellow going one lamp and 2 orange going to other lamp ,if this is the case then you have to disconect the 2 yellow so that you can connect the orange wires

[Awibrandy]

Quote: Originally Posted by FRY most of your ballast has 2 yellow wires going to one end of each lamp and 2 blues going to other end and 2 reds going to other lamp,with ice cap you have 2 yellow going one lamp and 2 orange going to other lamp ,if this is the case then you have to disconect the 2 yellow so that you can connect the orange wires

Thanks for the detailed info Fry, I'll let you guys know what happened later on in the day. I think I will tackle it sometime this afternoon. Pray for me.

[Spracklcat]

Best of luck--I just redid my wiring too, going from VHO's to T5's, but using the same ballasts. Nothing has blown up yet

Be brave!

[FRY]

if you any help let me know you can call me

frank