Ballast to bulb wiring delimma
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Ballast to bulb wiring delimma
I've had some brand new Acumen ballast sitting in my parts box for a while and decided to do a retrofit for my DC2. Anyway... I bought some ebay DS2 adapters but the plugs are different than the ballasts. Should I just cut, solder, heat shrink? Or should I look at another option?
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Re: Ballast to bulb wiring delimma (G-MO)
Do you plan on ever using the aftermarket bulbs with the ballast again? if not than surely cut, solder n heatshrink the wires together.... The blue off both units is the ground and the white off the plug and red of the ballast are the positive.
If you do plan on using the pnp bulbs with the ballast again you're going to have to go a different route (I can not remember the name of that plug on the ballast, the one on the adapter to the ballast is amp connectors..), either new ballast or new adapter...
I had a spare D2S/R plug lying around and needed a test ballast but all I had was after market units, so what I did was cut the leads off a dead bulb and cut solder n heat shrink the amp connectors onto the D2S/R plug leads and it's worked with zero problems.
If you do plan on using the pnp bulbs with the ballast again you're going to have to go a different route (I can not remember the name of that plug on the ballast, the one on the adapter to the ballast is amp connectors..), either new ballast or new adapter...
I had a spare D2S/R plug lying around and needed a test ballast but all I had was after market units, so what I did was cut the leads off a dead bulb and cut solder n heat shrink the amp connectors onto the D2S/R plug leads and it's worked with zero problems.
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Re: Ballast to bulb wiring delimma (CarbonizedDX)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CarbonizedDX »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Do you plan on ever using the aftermarket bulbs with the ballast again? if not than surely cut, solder n heatshrink the wires together.... The blue off both units is the ground and the white off the plug and red of the ballast are the positive.
If you do plan on using the pnp bulbs with the ballast again you're going to have to go a different route (I can not remember the name of that plug on the ballast, the one on the adapter to the ballast is amp connectors..), either new ballast or new adapter...
I had a spare D2S/R plug lying around and needed a test ballast but all I had was after market units, so what I did was cut the leads off a dead bulb and cut solder n heat shrink the amp connectors onto the D2S/R plug leads and it's worked with zero problems.</TD></TR></TABLE>
he doesn't have a pnp kit... he bought those d2s plug adapters that probably plug into a pnp kit. like he said, just cut and solder. i did something similar in the writeup in my sig.
If you do plan on using the pnp bulbs with the ballast again you're going to have to go a different route (I can not remember the name of that plug on the ballast, the one on the adapter to the ballast is amp connectors..), either new ballast or new adapter...
I had a spare D2S/R plug lying around and needed a test ballast but all I had was after market units, so what I did was cut the leads off a dead bulb and cut solder n heat shrink the amp connectors onto the D2S/R plug leads and it's worked with zero problems.</TD></TR></TABLE>
he doesn't have a pnp kit... he bought those d2s plug adapters that probably plug into a pnp kit. like he said, just cut and solder. i did something similar in the writeup in my sig.
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