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Replacing ballast in old light fitting - advice from those that know please sought!

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Hi everyone

Wow, it's been some time since I was here.... it's all changed! I've not been doing a huge amount of electrical work of late, although now. have a conundrum which I can't seem find out the answer to.. so of course I though of you all. Fingers crossed.


I have a client who is VERY attached to an old light fitting. Its a fluorescent. Having replaced both tubes and starters, its still not working (there is power) so I'm thinking to change the ballast. However, all the replacements seem to be HF which don't require starters. Would it work with the starters? Or would I have to rewire the light to by pass them?


No lighting supplier has proved helpful in answering my query but hopefully someone here can help me out.

many thanks

BB



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  • Perhaps, but when I've done it, it is because of a desire to repair one unit, rather than to replace a great many or suffer from an line of matching units with an odd one out.

    I have also done a similar thing where it was not a fitting as such but components built into a rather nice cupboard, with no desire to do damage to it.
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  • Perhaps, but when I've done it, it is because of a desire to repair one unit, rather than to replace a great many or suffer from an line of matching units with an odd one out.

    I have also done a similar thing where it was not a fitting as such but components built into a rather nice cupboard, with no desire to do damage to it.
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