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Well, I finally received the 3A ballast the other day and put everything back together last night. The one problem I had was that since I had ordered the new lamp to go with the other ballast, the connector now didn't match. So I had two choices: a) send the lamp back and order the one with the righ...

Well, bad news for me. There are two connectors on the lamp ballast and the secondary (smaller) connector on the 16A is different than the one on my original lamp ballast. On the 16A, it is a 5 pin connector. On mine, it is a 3pin connector. So I assume that the 03A must be the 3 pin. Oh well, it wa...

Ok, I'm going to go ahead and order the 16A ballast and a new lamp with the two pin connector that the 16A uses. I'll post here how things go once I get these parts and install them. Since the newer ballast is much cheaper, I will end up not spending much more to get the additional bulb than if I ha...

The previous lamp has a sticker that says on it: OSRAM 120W BP96-00224B So this lamp was the "B" lamp, but it still says it's a 120W lamp. And as I mentioned, this lamp worked for almost 6 years before it recently burnt out. I could be wrong, but I thought both the "B" and the "J" were essentially t...

Thanks for responding. I think I'm getting more confused. Yeah, I had noticed that their prices were pretty out there compared to other sites I had seen and I definitely wasn't planning on purchasing from them. I was just looking at the information they had up. The "J" bulb installed fine and worked...

Hi Everyone, I've been lurking here for a while and I'd like to thank everyone for all the helpful information I've gotten along the way. I've finally come across an issue that I need a little guidance on though, so I've created an account to post my question and share this experience in case it can...