Qube
04-18-2005, 09:25 PM
Yes, that's a strange title, isn't it? :)
Does this look right? Everything was wonderful until one of the bulbs continued to turn off and refused to turn on until what seemed to be a ‘cool down’ period. I tried running the bulbs in and outside of the headlamp with the same issue. One of the bulbs (same one always) would go out after a while. It originally was about 15 minutes, then got progressively shorter. Now it would turn on, then turn itself off under 2 minutes. I would then need to wait about 5 minutes before the bulb would reignite.
I noticed something strange about it as well. There is a yellowish liquid inside the center of the bulb… but I deemed that normal because both have that. However, the suspect bulb center looks frosty and has a lot of that yellow fluid. The ok bulb has a bit of yellow fluid but is overall transparent.
Hmmm... this is indicative of a cheap, defective bulb? ;)
One thing I haven't tried... plugging this bulb into the other ballast/starter, but I thought I'd ping this forum for possible suggestions. Perhaps someone else has seen this.
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Does this look right? Everything was wonderful until one of the bulbs continued to turn off and refused to turn on until what seemed to be a ‘cool down’ period. I tried running the bulbs in and outside of the headlamp with the same issue. One of the bulbs (same one always) would go out after a while. It originally was about 15 minutes, then got progressively shorter. Now it would turn on, then turn itself off under 2 minutes. I would then need to wait about 5 minutes before the bulb would reignite.
I noticed something strange about it as well. There is a yellowish liquid inside the center of the bulb… but I deemed that normal because both have that. However, the suspect bulb center looks frosty and has a lot of that yellow fluid. The ok bulb has a bit of yellow fluid but is overall transparent.
Hmmm... this is indicative of a cheap, defective bulb? ;)
One thing I haven't tried... plugging this bulb into the other ballast/starter, but I thought I'd ping this forum for possible suggestions. Perhaps someone else has seen this.
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