1 year old Ice cap 660 took a crap!

poiboy

Member
I've had the 660 for a little over a year and well... the lights turned on for about two and half hours and then click, all went dim. I took the ballast apart and it turns out one of the capasitors took a dump 200V 680 mega pharite. Has anyone had this problem or better yet how old is your ICE CAP 660? Oh and I have two 8 in cooling fans running over the water and ballast, so there's no heat issues.
 

acrylic51

Active Member
Good and bad news for you.....Bad news is you should have never taken apart the ballast to see what's wrong with it, because IceCap has a very good reputation for fixing them and they do carry a good warranty as well....They might not honor the warranty since you opened the casing, but good news is you can contact them and see what they say and even if they don't cover it warranty wise you can still get it fixed and shouldn't cost you much.....Andy over at IceCap is very good!!!!!! Give them a call!!!!
 

poiboy

Member
I know there good a fixing but I wanted to see for myself what when wrong, I'm just going to replace both of the capcitors.
 

lafster

New Member
I ran a 660 (4x48" VHO) for about six years before I had a problem with it. I had it fixed by IceCap and it's back on the tank for hopefully another six or until I upgrade to MH.
 

littlebuck

Active Member
to bad you took it apart. Icecap has a 2 yr warrenty and then if u sent in the card it will bea 3 year. But 1st thing on the warrnety says any product that has been opened ,repaired, worked on or altered by any person other then the Manufacturer. So i guess you are out of luck on sending it back. Sorry to hear that because if anything happens to then they usuall take them back and fix them or if they can they will send you as brand new one. But guess you will need to buy something else new. Sorry for your loss.
 
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