my metal halides are strobing?

[billy1724]

i have a 48'' current outer orbit 2X250 metal halides and t5s, the halides are strobing i was wondering if this has ever happend to anyone else? i just hooked up 2 6101's and a multi controler ive noticed that im pulling alot of power from that circut could it be that im just drawing to much power from there? thats my guess but if you could give me any ideas i would appreaciate it.

[NanoReefWanabe]

have you tried pluging the lights into a dedicated circuit to see if they still strobe? what kind of ballasts so they have? does the controller simulate a wave maker and are the lights strobing with the Tunzes?

could be a power drain....could be a loose ground, could be bad ballasts/ corroded.

i guess without eliminating some of the factors it would be hard to isolate the problem..

[billy1724]

ill def start trying to see if i can isolate it to one of those when i get home thanks for the ideas

[Trnman32]

I had a xm 10 k start strobing on me and mine are on there own circuit and I swapped my two bulbs and the bulb that was strobing did it on the other ballast as well so I changed the bulb and it turned out to be the bulb was bad

[billy1724]

ok i def check that out too.
i noticed you have a 50 gall refugium do u have a pick im trying to buy one or make my own wanted to get some ideas?

[MinibowMatt]

could be a faulty capacitor in the ballast.