Recent content by warthog

That's exactly it - thanks!

OK, so I have a new ballast, but I'm not sure how to make the wiring connections. Old ballast, standard 3 wires A/C 120v - 2 hot, 1 ground probably about 12 ga wire. But the new ballast has 1 green wire and 5 white wires??? And they are all smaller, maybe 18 ga. Obviously the green is the...

In my research I found an interesting read that I thought I would share in case it helps anyone else... http://www.aboutlightingcontrols.org/education/papers/high-low-bay.shtml

Thanks for the replies. I do like a good ebay hunt and it looks like that's where I'll be headed. T8HO sounds interesting too, I'll have to do some searching and educate myself on that...

I have 2 high bay lights in my garage but one has recently stopped working. They are round 16 inch 400w metal halide lights and instead of warming up, one just glows blue, while the other works fine. It isn't the bulb, because I put the suspect bulb in the other fixture and it lights fine...

Thanks for the help guys. The doors are the individual, interlocking slat type. I just can't tell if there are little wheels tucked back in the tracks or just metal tabs or something. I wasn't sure if I should lube the whole track or what. I was mainly worried about attracting a lot of dirt...

Hello everyone. I just purchased a house with a great 30 x 30 shop/garage. It has 2 roll up doors with a pull chain to operate. My question is on maintenance - where do I oil and/or grease it to get smooth operation and not have problems down the road? Right now they operate fairly smoothly...