Pros/Cons between ballast and passive whelen dual talons

nybucketman

Member
May 21, 2010
96
Harrisburg, PA
Would I be foolish to swap two like new passive blue/blue dual talons for two like new ballast red/clear dual talons? I'm not sure the negatives or differences between the passive and ballast other than the passive are the newer version and that the ballast make noise while on. Please enlighten me. Chris
 
May 21, 2010
1,176
NJ & IA
Ballast


- give out a little bit of RF interference, blocks cell phone comm.


- cannot be combined with passive (synched)


- emit a little noise


-older technology (original)


Passive


-can be synched


-do not require a ballast between the lighthead and the power source (in the case of talons, the ballast is built in, but for ballast lightheads you need the ballast or they don't work.


basically the way the ballast works is that it steps up the voltage from 12v to 18v, which is what the ballast requiring lightheads are built to function on. therefore a standard 12v connection is just not enough power for the ballast lighthead if it is missing the ballast component.


hpd can add what ever i missed
 

UndercoverVLS

Member
Jun 1, 2010
337
NY
secrets secrets. All is true what was posted but yet to this day i have yet to experience the cell phone or radio interference with the lights. I just like passive cause its newer technology.
 

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