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Did you remove the battery? I don't see any way to remove it from the casing. It must be removable because you can buy replacements- without the casing. Is it just glued in?? I think cellphones are the bane of human existence. Alopng with the internet. We were all fine before it, and now look at us... wasting our lives trying to repair a piece of shit that runs your life.

Interesting my ballast is bad but it past the Ohms test. I have heard others say the same thing. Mine is an electronic ballast.

do you still have the phone or if anyone else can open theirs

You happen to have a video or anything to run the cat s48c without the battery? Directly with the cable?

Wow! how many wires does a ballest have comming out of it.

Well if you could havf found a port, hos do you replace it. I have ond in an unusable phone with good port... and brokrn port in my phone that is my " key" to being locked out of my accounts 😭

This is a fantastic video. Well done. Short and to the point. Thanks for posting.

This method only tests for ground faults. And may give a false positive for a broken balast. Also the information on the analog meter is backwards; if the meter moves all the way, it means no resistance. I am not sure the person doing the video understands all they are doing

In All Fairness . . . Alex Is RIGHT ! . . . You did pretty clearly say "desk pop" We ALL heard you, Dude ... I mean, you even recorded it and posted it on youtube ! B-)

You're assuming everyone has that K-Mart special multi-meter, nowadays you can purchase one around forty bucks that has one ohm setting.😆😅🤣😂

Thankyou for this video, i found it very helpful

It did help. Thanks Alex!!!

Sorry.. How the 2nd ballast is good?

I feel sorry for people who analyze obvious skits for authenticity. Not really though.

Van you show how to test a magnetic ballest using a multimeter. Thanks

My ballast has 2 red wires and 2 blue wires and a black and a white that go to the AC source. The schematic on the ballast shows that the red wires go to one end of the fluorescent fixture, and that the blue wires go to the opposite end of the fixture. The white wire is the neutral wire that goes to a 127v source. Is this correct?

Very neat to know the difference between the analog & digital readings. Thank you for that understanding! Iam in the trade and I haven’t seen any analog Technology except for mega readings. 👍👍

I bought a brand new Ballast from Homedepot and tested it using this method. The blue wire showed resistance. I used it anyway. It came out good. Is this method reliable?

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Good video boss

Why white lead?

How do you manually charge the battery?

T12 has only , one end a black and a white. other end blue and a red. same test. Black from tester to white and red from tester to red and then blue. each should show OL. if one or both show resistance then ballast is trash

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if i read resistence means working..correct? if reads OL that means no connection.. Other wise not working?

All we have to do is make sure neutral has no continuity with any other wire?

Correct me if wrong,OL means Open line or loop.Could you not use continuity test?

The following response was posted by Tou Xiong in about the year 2000. It is the only informative post in the entire thread, yet was posted as a response to a comment, so was not as easily accessible for all to readily see. This is a good way to test a ballast when it is not in the cover and you can't tell if it's a good one or a bad one. This is the reason I searched this up. I work with some people who likes to keep junk we have a bunch of ballast good and bad, some wrapped some unwrapped so I have to go through and test them to find the bad ones to throw out. As for a ballast that is hooked up its easy to tell if it's working or not. Just use a non contact power tester. It beeps when there is power in the wire. If you test and it beeps on the red and black supply wire then it should also beep on the yellow, blue, and red fixure wire as well. If non of them beeps (while the red and black supply does), you have a bad ballast.

There has to be more to it than this. If you stuck 6 wires into a brick, you would get the same results as produced in this test. That does not mean a brick would work as a ballast. By following this authors directions, I wasted a day rebuilding a fluorescent fixture, which was doubly hard to do as the fixture was recessed into the ceiling.

So we got 2 tools breaking the law instead of 1

Yes I do have the cat S48 charger dock ports. Your welcome to contact our company directly.

Fairly ineffective method to test a ballast. My broken ballast tested good according to your method. An open winding in a transformer will still give you an open reading. A failed test is a good indicator that the ballast is bad but a passing test does not definitively mean the ballast is good, it may still be bad.

does not work. tried it twice on ballast while watching this. Guess is it might not work on T8

Great and informative video. just one comment; should mention to test the white wire with all other wires except the black wire. People who have no electrical experience will read resistance if they measure between white and black wires and determine that the ballast is defective

Thanks for this video I've had this phone for 3 years and the battery is getting weak, but I love how indestructible it is. I'll just do some work to it and not bother with getting a new phone.

Ready!!!..... Aim!!!......Fire!!!!!.... BOOM!!!. You have done my day in times of need. You have come through in dealing with this stupid antiquated form of lighting which sometimes can exasperate anyone. Thanks.

Just replaced my ballast that checked good using this method. If all lights go out at the same time; likely the ballast. Power to ballast but not out; bad ballast. I bought lights and ballast; now I have spare bulbs.

Does this work for electronic LED drivers too?

All my wires are white...

Holy shit 😂

Great video on testing florescent light ballast

This is NOT an accurate test! I did this on my ballast and it showed it was good, so thanks to you I wasted a bunch of time tracking wires and making sure there wasn't any other issues. So after all that I bought a new ballast anyway since it was only $12 and VIOLA, it works great now!

Here in 2021. This was a very helpful video

Looks like a 22lr with the projectile and powder removed. A desk primer pop

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Bio fake and unsafe

That was funny

Faaaayk.

dumbass

Short and sweet thanks