Studio Color 575 lamp issue

:confused: I have a color studio 575 at our church that after replacing the lamp it would not strike. This same unit had the ignitor card replaced a year ago. After further investigating I found the a fuse blown on the LPS. After replacing it with the correct size the lamp still wouldn't strike. (No clicking sounds either). I tried another ignitor card and still no lamp strike. I found a new LPS on Ebay and installed that today. Now when I do a self test, the display flashes strike and the lamp looks like it strikes. (No clicking sound from ignitor or power supply). The display continues to flash strike.
If I manually strike the lamp from the menu, I can see the lamp come on but eventually turn off after about a minute.
Is it abnormal to not hear the ignitor or power supply make a clicking sound when the lamp ignites? Also, once ignited, why doesn't the lamp stay lit?
Thank you!
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    Just a note, I was dealing with almost the same issue. My LPS would Strike, you would see the lamp glow, and then it would go out, and show "timeout" on the front display. I found that if I kept manualy pushing "strike softkey" on the menu when it first striked, it would "sort-of-Latch?" (I mean it would stay on, then start to hum as it increased the ampreage, and power up to full brightness)" and finally warm up to full power, and make the proper buzz-hum sound, but only if I kept pressing the strike repeatedly on the front panel under the menu. It would not work via DMX for strike, because it would only try just once to strike.

    Took out the LPS, and tried it in my other fixture with the same result.

    I sent the LPS, and ignitor out for repair to HES, Igniter was fine, but they were unable to fix the LPS, so I acquiring another LPS, and it works fine now.

    Here was my post with my issue: forums.highend.com/showthread.php?t=8275
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    Just a note, I was dealing with almost the same issue. My LPS would Strike, you would see the lamp glow, and then it would go out, and show "timeout" on the front display. I found that if I kept manualy pushing "strike softkey" on the menu when it first striked, it would "sort-of-Latch?" (I mean it would stay on, then start to hum as it increased the ampreage, and power up to full brightness)" and finally warm up to full power, and make the proper buzz-hum sound, but only if I kept pressing the strike repeatedly on the front panel under the menu. It would not work via DMX for strike, because it would only try just once to strike.

    Took out the LPS, and tried it in my other fixture with the same result.

    I sent the LPS, and ignitor out for repair to HES, Igniter was fine, but they were unable to fix the LPS, so I acquiring another LPS, and it works fine now.

    Here was my post with my issue: forums.highend.com/showthread.php?t=8275
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