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[Chris K]

Interesting! This is the first TV I've bought that had one. I did a lot of research looking for replacements in case something like this happened and came to the conclusion it's the rarer of the 2 ballast tubes Motorola used in this TV. Phil has a simple resistor build on his website for the more common one and I suppose I could just modify the values to match the one I'd be substituting for. I have seen the alternate capacitor based, soft start ballast replacement but it's also a replacement for the more common ballast tube so, I don't think I want to mess with trying to adjust that design for my needs. If you come across the ballast, let me know and I can provide the pin values I would need but don't go digging just for me!