Hypermagic

My Phillips 6000K D2R ballast just died on me.

Does anybody here ever have to deal with Phillips for replacement? Anybody has suggestion who I should contact to get the replacement? I bought this kit from a guy here in CL about 5 months ago and I didn't keep any receipt of the order....

Please help!!... Thanks y'all

Hypermagic

here's the picture of ballast

99SHlude

That ballast looks like the one I have. Did you buy your HID kit from Jason? I think just about every seller has a warranty of some sort, try contacting the seller.

99SHlude

Oh yeah, Philips does not warranty their products when it's put together as an HID kit.....this is why it's important to get it from a reputable seller that backs the product he sells. At this point you can only go to the seller for ballast replacement under warranty...(most people don't repair, they replace since the ballast is complex)

rominl

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yeah i don't think there is any warrnaty, specially ou don't even have the receipt... try talk to jason (discountcycle@ureach.com) see if he can do something about it

otherwise, you will need to get another ballast standalone from autolamps-online.com

Hypermagic

Is Jason the person up on the east coast? the name cycle something does ring me a bell. Hopefully he is up to it. Thank you all for the responses. I'll keep you guys updated...

rominl

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nop he's in cali. he's the guy i got my hid kits from and a lot of members on this board got their kits from him too

Hypermagic

Thank you again Rominl
You've been very helpful. Do you know anybody has this problem with that Phillips Kit before?
Hopefully it's not just me that has the situation like this....

rominl

iTrader: (4)

frankly though, you are the first one i have seen with a blown ballast. but it's normal i guess, i mean it's just a product, it's going to break one day.

Hypermagic

I just got email from Jason of DiscountCycle. Pretty nice guy, he stand up for his product and provide 1 year warranty. Hope to get my new ballast in matters of days. I'll keep you guys updated.

Thumbs up for this seller!!

BananaGS

just for your info, never power up your ballast w/o the HID bulb installed. that will toast the ballast for sure.

PHML

iTrader: (33)

If you dont mind me askin.....how much did this one ballast cost you (from Jason)?

Btw....how did you determine that the ballast was the problem? Did you switch HID bulbs to test?

Pete

rominl

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cool!!!! congrats man, keep us posted

Hypermagic

Yeah... the ballast is on its way from Jason. I can't recall the exact number,...perhaps around $470. If you want, just contact him: discountcycle@ureach.com.

I didn't swap the bulb, but I did swap the ballast and this one is defective...
Banana, I did not turn on the ballast w/o the bulb... surely it'll fry the ballast.
Anh, you are in Austin right? What kind of rims do you have?

I'll keep you guys updated when I recieve the ballast.

rominl

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oh you got your kit from jason? if so yeah, you have warranty