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Old 10-12-2017, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Olorin67 View Post
I dont think ive seen a 40 watt with a starter, but plenty of smaller fixtures used them. i still use a few of the push and hold to start types. A desk lamp, undercabinet lights, and a circa 1940 "vertical "skyscraper" lamp that still has its original beryllium phosphor tube in it.
The place I worked at for 33years, 20 as an electrician had a lot of preheat 40 watt fixtures. I worked 2nd shift, so I did a lot lighting maintenance, especially in the office. One part of the office was built in 1957 and the fixtures were all originally rapid start. Those ballasts lasted an easy 30/40 years, Sola Sequencestart. PCB's gallore.
The older section was built in 1947 and had some really old-fashioned looking preheat ballasts. I re-wired the fixtures for rapid state when the originals failed after only a lousy 45 years.
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