Thread: CTC-2B Ballast
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Old 11-07-2016, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Electronic M View Post
That is easy to deal with. Assuming the ballast uses a standard (presumably octal) tube base/socket just get another base socket pair of that type, and if your other chassis has a good ballast make a socket extender/breakout adapter with the extra base/socket pair to allow you to insert a current meter in series with each resistor such that you don't have to disturb the original wiring.
IIRC, it's not used as anything but a surge limiter. It depends on where in the circuit it is used.
Never have worked on one, I only seen one close up at Nick's place.
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