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Old 10-12-2017, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by maxhifi View Post
Lots of old fixtures use starters, but they have a mag ballast too. T12 magnetic ballasts are on the government's hit list of non environmentally friendly products, and I believe there's even timelines for when the lamps will no longer be sold.
If the government really wanted to cut down on pollution they'd have to ban just about everything from China. Consider their A/C units; I know it's illegal to deliberately vent refrigerant, but given enough time many of those will vent refrigerant all by themselves. Also, they gent all bent out of shape about the old-school mercury switches when today's failure-prone flat screens are full of the stuff... I could go on indefinitely.
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