My first post on AllAboutCircuits.com is a fairly simple one.
I found this lighting fixture on the side of the road no too long ago, and finally spent some time to disassemble it to get a better look.
It looks like a HPS system used for street lights or maybe some sort of industrial lighting.
There is the light socket itself, a transformer, a MMKT80 Cap with a parallel diode, and two resistors.
The power connections hook to the Transformer, and to each side of the socket ( white wire on one side, black on the other.)
I just don't know a lot about these lighting circuits, and would love to actually hook a light up to eventually utilize outdoors.
I found a Mercury lamp not to long ago as well that fits in the large socket.
It is a HPS 150W bulb. Will this work?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
I found this lighting fixture on the side of the road no too long ago, and finally spent some time to disassemble it to get a better look.
It looks like a HPS system used for street lights or maybe some sort of industrial lighting.
There is the light socket itself, a transformer, a MMKT80 Cap with a parallel diode, and two resistors.
The power connections hook to the Transformer, and to each side of the socket ( white wire on one side, black on the other.)
I just don't know a lot about these lighting circuits, and would love to actually hook a light up to eventually utilize outdoors.
I found a Mercury lamp not to long ago as well that fits in the large socket.
It is a HPS 150W bulb. Will this work?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
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