septicdeath
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I recently sold my jbj 28 pro led, its over a year old, but was setup and put into service Dec 2011. I never had a single issue, and even though I sold it as-is. When the person I sold it too contacted me, I obviously want to try to help.
He says that 1 row of the daylight LED's had failed (there are 5 rows of LED's) for the daylights. This to me, would make be believe that some wiring or something came loose, since 80% of the LED"s were still lit.
He said he unplugged the light, and then plugged it back in, if I understand him correctly, he said now none of the daylights came on, this would make me think something else, except It was verified that at one time, 4 of 5 rows were lit. Again, I searched for premature failure of these systems, and had to search a little more in depth to find a few saying they had ballast issues, but google searches didn't throw up lots of hits, making me think that these things have had a pretty good track record.
Again, I ran it every day, and didn't have it skip a beat, it worked flawless, in the threads I did read about ballast issues, it sounded like JBJ replaced the ballasts for the users for free (this was in Dec 2011), so I assume that the system has only been on the market for 14 months at most, but I believe my unit was purchased in Fed 2011, but not by me, and I dont have the receipt. Is there a way to find manufacture date so we can verify ballast?
I told the buyer to come to this forum and post, since I know he can get lots of help here, but I thought I would help a little more and start searching, but not having the unit at my disposal, I cant try anything anyone says, but hopefully he will join into this thread and take over, I know he works late hours, so wouldn't be able to post until tomorrow, so Im just posting now, so it gets some time to get read.
Anyone else with any issues, or had any issues? Anyone buy that if 80% of the LEDS worked that the ballast should be working? Or how to test the output of the ballast to see if it is the issue? Any thing anyone can think of so I can assist him, it worked so flawlessly for me, im up in arms about how come all,of a sudden their are light issues. I suppose a simple voltmeter can check for 24v at the ballast connector? I'll tell him to try that? Anyone else have any issues?
Hopefully he finds his way here and already you guys will have some idea's.
Thanks in advance.
-John
He says that 1 row of the daylight LED's had failed (there are 5 rows of LED's) for the daylights. This to me, would make be believe that some wiring or something came loose, since 80% of the LED"s were still lit.
He said he unplugged the light, and then plugged it back in, if I understand him correctly, he said now none of the daylights came on, this would make me think something else, except It was verified that at one time, 4 of 5 rows were lit. Again, I searched for premature failure of these systems, and had to search a little more in depth to find a few saying they had ballast issues, but google searches didn't throw up lots of hits, making me think that these things have had a pretty good track record.
Again, I ran it every day, and didn't have it skip a beat, it worked flawless, in the threads I did read about ballast issues, it sounded like JBJ replaced the ballasts for the users for free (this was in Dec 2011), so I assume that the system has only been on the market for 14 months at most, but I believe my unit was purchased in Fed 2011, but not by me, and I dont have the receipt. Is there a way to find manufacture date so we can verify ballast?
I told the buyer to come to this forum and post, since I know he can get lots of help here, but I thought I would help a little more and start searching, but not having the unit at my disposal, I cant try anything anyone says, but hopefully he will join into this thread and take over, I know he works late hours, so wouldn't be able to post until tomorrow, so Im just posting now, so it gets some time to get read.
Anyone else with any issues, or had any issues? Anyone buy that if 80% of the LEDS worked that the ballast should be working? Or how to test the output of the ballast to see if it is the issue? Any thing anyone can think of so I can assist him, it worked so flawlessly for me, im up in arms about how come all,of a sudden their are light issues. I suppose a simple voltmeter can check for 24v at the ballast connector? I'll tell him to try that? Anyone else have any issues?
Hopefully he finds his way here and already you guys will have some idea's.
Thanks in advance.
-John
