superbronze

I have an old Dr. Kern Dometic 2400 in my house. I use it seperately from my salon (its way to old for salon use). Anyhow, after the bed gets used about 2 times (me then someone else in my family) a lamp in the canopy turns a red color and it gets extremely, dangerously hot to the touch. It melted a piece of the reflector actually, I havent been getting in it for safety, I changed out all the lamps and starters and it still does it..Any ideas? The fans are all clean and functioning 100%, I opened up the bed and cleaned it all out, I changed the lamps out with LS Morning Sun 2.3% lamps.

ED ST

Replace the ballast.

Dustin

Good question, that is wierd.

Antigua Tan

It is not wierd at all. It is Bed Repair 101.

Ballast is 'burning out' and this is wreaking havoc with the lamp.

Do not use the bed until you change the ballast.

superbronze

So when the ballast goes bad the lamp gets extremely hot and red? Now I gotta go get a 100Watt choke ballast for this thing, its sad I own a salon, and I still dont even understand this freakin thing..

billable

Plasma in the lamp will continue to get hotter and hotter until it burns something up unless the voltage is controlled (choked) by the ballast. Your ballast is shorting out and not providing enough resistance (not the proper term, but works the same) to keep the plasma from overheating.

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Neon Beach

Curious, melted a reflector?

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superbronze

Yeah, it has the reflectors that cup around the lamp for better reflection, and it totally melted it out! I am gonna pop in a new ballast and hope I can get my family tan again :)!

superbronze

Now its got 3 more lamps next to it not lighting up, I just cant win

tanu01

The lamps are daisey chained........ just change the ballest