medi Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 I am replacing the ballast on my Coralife Aqualight Pro with a Lumatek Electronic dimmable ballast. I figure this would be a simple open and rewire, but upon opening it I noticed the wiring goes through what appears to be a remote ignitor. My question is what happens if I leave the wiring the way it is and continue to run through the remote ignitor. I know my new ballast has an ignitor so what happens if I have double ignitors? Fry the lamp? Or maybe nothing at all? I can remove it, but would rather not so that when I go to sell the fixture I don't have to figure out how to rewire the ignitor. Hopefully the pics help you see what I am talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offroadodge Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 i dont think it will work with 2, the green,white, and black are all u need. If teh ballast came with a cord then u dont need the old cord at all. Just run the new cord threw the hole where the old on was. If its a wired type ballast hook it up just like it is now but w/o the old ignitor. Black to Black-White to White-Green to Green. Its realy hard to say cause it looks like the other cords are connect as well. Maybe this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crendon2003 Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 I agree with offroadodge here. I have been reading up on this as well cause i want to switch my ballast to lumatek too. If u Google rewiring coralife aqualight pro the first response is from 3reef.com I believe he shows how he rewired his but a lil different Cause he is going from 150w to 250w and I believe he states that the lumatek has the ignitor in the ballast so u don't need the one in the fixture. There are a couple other people who have done it and I'm still gathering info but like i said it seems that the ignitor isn't needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medi Posted August 6, 2010 Author Share Posted August 6, 2010 Thanks for the info. I removed the igniter and I got it all rewired and the difference is amazing. The light looks almost twice as bright. The only problem I am still having is now the cooling fan in thefixture barely turns. I'm at a loss about this. I know everything is re-wired correctly. I have officially perplexed the coralife guys too. He is supposed to do some research and call me back if he can figure anything out. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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