Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
electronic ballasts
I searched for a long time just for a replacement electronic ballast to replace the one that went in my Rio 180. I went to a number of shops but nothing turned up, i tried all avenues but the only way I could buy the raw ballast was to order 150 of them in a batch from Chine wholesalers
. In the end I just bought an arcadia 2 x 30 watt ballast, torn it apart and soldiered it into the hood of the rio. Problem solved but a little expensive.I just had a quick look on ebay. This fella is selling them for cheap but I would be suspicious about them being \"brand new\" and I'd say they are taken from old lighting units. Would still work though! Link
Denis
Lead me not into temptation, For I can find it myself!
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3*400 watts and you can make fish soup in most tanksLooks like those ballasts are for high wattage bulbs, it would be impressive to see 3 x 400W bulbs installed above a tank. It would be so bright I'd say the light would hum! However, there might be some way of altering them. Looking at the list, is an ignitor the same as a ballast or would you need both for a flo tube to run?
My problem is solved anyway. We have an electrician on site whose installing several dozen flourescent lights in my office. Two HF ballasts good for 4*36 watt each just happend to end up in the boot of my car...
With an electrical ballast you don't need any ignitor.
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