Rewiring a ballast. Help needed.

[Victor Roberts]

Sounds also like a device that should have been built into the lamp itself
since its life is probably closer to the lamp life than to the life of the
usual commercial ballast. Wonder why we've not seen that for linear lamps
especially for residential applications.

The life of the ballast can be quite long as it is only an inductor
and capacitor. And, when you add to that the fact that this high
current crest factor ballast destroys lamps rather quickly, you can
see that the ballast should outlast many lamps

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[Jeff Waymouth]

The life of the ballast can be quite long as it is only an inductor
and capacitor. And, when you add to that the fact that this high
current crest factor ballast destroys lamps rather quickly, you can
see that the ballast should outlast many lamps

And of course the short life will be blamed on the lamps! ==Sigh==

;>(} =======> a winking bearded grimace

Jeff Waymouth
Fluorescent Applications Engineer
OSRAM SYLVANIA
jeff.waymouth@ sylvania.com --- business email address