MH Help Needed/FUSE or Switch is Dead

[xia]

I have a PFO Dual 400w HQI. One side is working, but the other side is "dead." The switch for the dead side is loose and won't click. Is it a fuse problem or something else? Does MH's use fuses? Getting ready to take it apart tomorrow when I have time to play with it, just wondering if anyone's had this problem before.

 

[Justin74]

I cant speak from personal experience with that ballast, but that aside if your able to open it up you'd just have to bypass the switch so it gets a constant flow of power, your timers ultimately are the switch anyway.

-Justin

 

[xia]

Opened it up, looks like a bad switch. Justin, talk about a simple solution. Thanks. Ahh . . . everybody's happy now.

It's an easy temporary fix, but I think I'm going to try to replace the switch though, since it's a pain to reach the timers. 13 amps it says. Anyone know where to get one of these?

 

[GorillaReefer]

Radio Shack. Not exactly the same, but buy 2 and no one will ever know.

 

[Photon]

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