My girlfriend says "I don't remember it's been three years...."
I egg her on on the importance of resetting the lamp counter in that she knows that I'm the one that computer tracks each lamp. Any returned lamp that says 2,679 hours and often "bad" or "brown" (dpesn't
strike) yet by way of looking at the electrode and it seemingly a wee
bit less (normally like 170 to 300hrs) instantly becomes a lamp that can no longer be returned if tried in a second
fixture and confirmed to be bad before it's time. No reset of the lamp counter in having accurate hours in the lamps history, the equivolent of someone's day rate in pay down the hole. Simple as that if attempting to
send it back to the manufacturer.
She did have a interesting comment however of something she remembers however in also not seeing it in the
manual.
Is your
fixture up side down or right side up? If one arrow don't get you where you want to be, go for the other arrow.
On your don't
strike lamp, look at it and the electrodes - almost count the silver bubbles about them. Look at the
globe to see how cloudy, frosted and or hazy it is. Could be that the lamp if in good shape will work in another
fixture. Each
fixture has it's own signature of it's
ballast dependant upon age and other things. What won't work
in one fixture or seems brown without the above details will often work fine in a second
fixture or at times even third
fixture as long as the lamp looks ok and the age is not too much.
