Newsgroups: alt.engineering.electrical
Subject: Re: Puzzled over florescent light behaviour
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ChairmanOfTheBored  writes:

> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:13:46 -0500, [email protected] (Roy) wrote:
> 
> >
> >Either the starter or the ballast transformer is gone.
> 
> 
>  Fluorescent lights haven't used starters for about three decades now, if
> not longer.

Many Ffuorescent lights still use starters nowadays, especially 
cheaper ones on the European markets (230V mains voltage). 
Here bimetal or electronics based starters are normal 
on most fluorescent fixtures that use traditional ballasts. 
The story is different for fluorescent lamps that use 
more expensive electronic ballasts.  

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