hate to harp on hid's but i just read on the gto forum of a few hid's ballast getting hot enough to fry. the one system in particular was purchased from ebay.

just wondering if anyone here has heard or experienced this.

 

I have seen some pretty crappy HID kits on ebay. But never heard of a decent quality one doing anything of the sort.

 

Dude any electronic device that is not fused or has a really big fuse can cause a fire. The ballast themselves do not produce enough heat to catch fire. How do I know? I have a big 600w HPS ballast running 12 or 18 hrs a day, everyday. It's not digital and runs hot, about 120 degrees.... Any electrical short can cause a fire, if the ballast got hot enough to cuase somthing to burn, it would have failed long before that point.

 

here is the post so you can see the ballast- sorry, the pics have been deleted from photobucket but it doesn't look like a quality peice of equipment ...anymore anyway.
i'm thinking ddm makes decent ballast so this is an unlikly senerio.


http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/r...1/IMGP0353.jpg
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/r...1/IMGP0351.jpg

 

That ballast was installed by a retard, they installed it in a wet location look at the SEVERE corrosion. I don't have corrosion like that on anything on my boat that sits in saltwater 24/7. Corrosion caused that ballast to fail, and if it was not fused you can be sure it started a fire. What prolly happened is it blew a cap or some other componenet and let out the famous blue smoke of electronics burning. The fuse would have then blown not cuasing a fire. There are a lot of people online that don't know what they are doing, and post things like that. Take anythign said online with a grain of salt evem what I say, I'm wrong at times too.

 

tis true t00fat. i'm over my fears with that photo so ima just waiten for those hid's to arrive now.