Hi,
I picked up a 150watt metal halide pendant a few weeks ago and it is giving some kind of burning smell from the pendant unit once a while. The bulb will be lighted and the smell will be coming out from the pendant unit, not from the remote ballast.
At the beginning I thought the smell is coming from the material of the lamp being heated up since the smell only comes after about 5-6 hrs of continue usage. Today I got the smell immediately the minute I turn on the lamp. Can a faulty ballast trigger the bulb to generate excessive heat to melt down some of the material within the pendant? I probably will try to take the pendant apart over the weekend to see what is going on but as of now, I am not going to use the pendant.
I picked up a 150watt metal halide pendant a few weeks ago and it is giving some kind of burning smell from the pendant unit once a while. The bulb will be lighted and the smell will be coming out from the pendant unit, not from the remote ballast.
At the beginning I thought the smell is coming from the material of the lamp being heated up since the smell only comes after about 5-6 hrs of continue usage. Today I got the smell immediately the minute I turn on the lamp. Can a faulty ballast trigger the bulb to generate excessive heat to melt down some of the material within the pendant? I probably will try to take the pendant apart over the weekend to see what is going on but as of now, I am not going to use the pendant.