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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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    First things first. It is a waste of time and money to replace everything until it works.


    Have you checked continuity of the old ballast with your multimeter? If that is OK have you used the correct starters? If it is two tubes in series you need series starters not standard ones.
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    First things first. It is a waste of time and money to replace everything until it works.


    Have you checked continuity of the old ballast with your multimeter? If that is OK have you used the correct starters? If it is two tubes in series you need series starters not standard ones.
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