8 Nov
2014
8 Nov
'14
8:43 a.m.
Not to hijack my own thread..
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:51 PM, tony duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
type with
the 20W circular fluorescent tube. I was really surprised to find
nothing but an iron-core choke in the base.. no starter device, nada.. just
a choke in series with the line cord (and the lamp) I assume. It +is+ the
type where you must hold down the power button for a moment to light it, so
perhaps that's a (manual?) starting mechanism. But in any case, I was a
little puzzled that's all there was to it, so to speak.
I can't
repair CFLs of course--although there was a time when the tube
could be purchased separately to plug into the ballast unit. I wish we
still had those.
I found the old ones with the iron-cored choke ballast to be a lot
more reliable than the modern ones with the SMPSU-type thing...
No surprise there!
A few weeks ago, I had to put a new AC cord on a Luxo magnifier lamp, the