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booshified

booshified

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what am i doing wrong? any ideas (sorry i didnt save the wrapper for the cord. im trying to find it online)

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More info is needed here to find out what the problem is.

If you're using this for UV-B, you'll need to lose the diffuser.
 
Your pic is not too clear, but it looks like the fixture was meant to be hard wired directly to an electrical box on the ceiling, and you have used wire nuts to splice it to a cord with which to plug it in. That is okay as long as you attach the correct wires together. The fixture has a black, white, and green wire. And the cord will have either 2 or 3 wires. If it has three they will be black, white, and green also. Attach each wire to the same color. If the cord only has 2 wires, then attach the black and white from the fixture and forget the green wire from the fixture. It is only a ground. You should tape up the connection over the wire nuts once you get it all wired correctly, so it won't inadvertantly come apart some day. Then plug the cord into a socket that you know works, like by plugging in a another light or fan. Also check that you have the bulbs properly seated in the sockets of the fixture. We are assuming that the bulbs are new. If the cord is wired up right, the plug in the wall is known to work, and the bulbs are all seated correctly, then the fixture is bad. Take it back.
I hope this helped.
Elliot
 
i will fiddle with some things but the fixture may be bad.

if anyone else has any ideas please let me know. other wise im gonna return it tomorrow if i have no luck.
 
I buy ones that come with a ballast and a plug. They sell them at Walmart, Canadian Tire and a few other stores...they cost about $15 for that size. They work well when used with a timer.
 
Where did you get this fixture from? Are you sure its not intended for 220v use. Is the firing can loose or damaged.(I've purchase fixtures in the past with the firing can damaged right out of the box).

Are your lamps possibly damaged? Can you test your lamps on another fixture?

Are you using 2 lamps .. on some units one won't complete the circuit with the ballast.

Good Luck
 
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Wires are too small to be 220, you can wire it too a lamp cord or make your own cord from 12-2 electrical wire and put a replacement plug onto the end... white to white black to black and bare wire is ground bare to green on light end and bare to ground plug on plug end... if it doesn't work the ballast or part that makes it light up is bad return it and try again, if you got this from Lowes, which i know we have, they also have the ones already wired for you....
 
Wires on 220v items are smaller gauge than 110v. At 220V you transmit half the current to attain the same power(watts), hence, smaller guage wire.

Ren: you may be confusing North American 220v wiring for high current items such as stoves. I'm refering to European 220v appliance type wiring. The fixture on this thread may have been intended for European 220V application.
 
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first off i wasnt paying attention when i bought it. didnt realize it wasnt wired. when i found out it wasnt i figured id try to do it myself.

anyways as far as i can tell everything is right and the bulbs are brand new. im gonna try a few things but then i am returning it to lowes.

also...why would a eurpoean light be in san diego california.



gonna go move the cage to the balcony so she can get some sun while the light is out.
 
Lots of people buy from the net or ebay and find out they purchased appliances or fixtures that are not country compatible.

Did you mention that you bought the item in San Diego?????
 
no...i thought it was implied. however you are right I should have stated where I got it.


So: Lowes, Mission Valley, San Diego, California, United States of America, North America, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, the Universe :p:p:p
 
cord wrapper says:

16 gauge replacement cord. 16 gauge, 13 amp


and the cord and fixture were made by the same company
 
I'll let the quote below speak for itself......




booshified said:
no...i thought it was implied. however you are right I should have stated where I got it.


So: Lowes, Mission Valley, San Diego, California, United States of America, North America, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, the Universe :p:p:p
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Just set up one of these the other day. White to white, black to black. If you have a 3 prongged plug, both the bare and the green will connect inside the housing on the green nut found inside the cover, next to the balast. If the plug is only two prongged, the green wire will be the only connection to the green nut.
 
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