fluorescent light, electronic ballasts

[TPr]

twin 36watt fluoro with plastic diffuser, made in china.

when switched OFF, you can run your hand along the plastic diffuser and the
tubes flicker.

what the ****?!

possibly the house wiring is incorrect for this light and the neutral is
switched for this light rather than the active, will have to check it out.

 

[KR]

twin 36watt fluoro with plastic diffuser, made in china.

when switched OFF, you can run your hand along the plastic diffuser and the
tubes flicker.

what the ****?!

possibly the house wiring is incorrect for this light and the neutral is
switched for this light rather than the active, will have to check it out..

thats whats happening.

 

[Lord Garth]

twin 36watt fluoro with plastic diffuser, made in china.

when switched OFF, you can run your hand along the plastic diffuser and
the
tubes flicker.

what the ****?!

possibly the house wiring is incorrect for this light and the neutral is
switched for this light rather than the active, will have to check it out.

thats whats happening.

Static electricity has that effect of fluorescent tubes...take one out of
its fixture and try it any time you can build a static charge.

 

[Mr.T]

Static electricity has that effect of fluorescent tubes

Or other electric fields such as RF, or even nearby high voltage
transmission lines.

MrT.

 

[ian field]

Or other electric fields such as RF, or even nearby high voltage
transmission lines.

MrT.

When I was a teenager the local council sited the refuse tip at the end of
the industrial estate with the 400kV national grid pylons running through a
field just beyond that.

A gang of us used to regularly skip raid all the flouro tubes we could find
and stick them in the mud under the overhead cables - quite a spectacle for
passengers on the rail line that ran past the industrial estate.

(wonder where the mercury ended up when the farmer ploughed them in?!).

 

[KR]

When I was a teenager the local council sited the refuse tip at the end of
the industrial estate with the 400kV national grid pylons running througha
field just beyond that.

A gang of us used to regularly skip raid all the flouro tubes we could find
and stick them in the mud under the overhead cables - quite a spectacle for
passengers on the rail line that ran past the industrial estate.

(wonder where the mercury ended up when the farmer ploughed them in?!).

Oh, Im sure that he disposed of it in some sickeningly green way

Did he grow corn, vegies, ie: foods that people ate without much
processing involved ?

 

[ian field]

When I was a teenager the local council sited the refuse tip at the end of
the industrial estate with the 400kV national grid pylons running through
a
field just beyond that.

A gang of us used to regularly skip raid all the flouro tubes we could
find
and stick them in the mud under the overhead cables - quite a spectacle
for
passengers on the rail line that ran past the industrial estate.

(wonder where the mercury ended up when the farmer ploughed them in?!).

Oh, Im sure that he disposed of it in some sickeningly green way

Did he grow corn, vegies, ie: foods that people ate without much
processing involved ?

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No idea - it was just a ploughed field when we stuck the flouro tubes in it.

 

[terryc]

No idea - it was just a ploughed field when we stuck the flouro tubes in
it.

How high and what voltage were the power lines?

 

[KR]

Oh, Im sure that he disposed of it in some sickeningly green way

Did he grow corn, vegies, ie: foods that people ate without much
processing involved  ?

****************************

No idea - it was just a ploughed field when we stuck the flouro tubes in it.

Tried it once on side of the highway under some unusually low hanging
330kv lines and a 30w tube. it was difficult to get it to light,
needed to hold it in a precise place a couple of centimetres from the
end to get it to light at all, even then it wasn't very bright.

might be dry soil there or something ?

 

[ian field]

How high and what voltage were the power lines?

I stated what voltage in my first contribution to this thread.