My kitchen fluorescent lamp which is 6 foot 100 watt unit wouldn't light tonite the starter flickered but no sign of any tube activity. It was very cold in the kitchen so I put the boiler on which warmed things up nicely I tried the tube again and although a bit sluggish it lit ( maybe my swearing at it helped) my question is do you think it's just because the tubes old and doesn't like the cold or is there something else going on?
I wasn't aware that 1800 mm tubes were available in 100 W variants Kelly.
I used to work for Thorn Lighting, well Smart and Brown lighting at the time, and recall their literature giving operating ranges for temperature with the 8 foot tubes being particularly susceptible to low temperature starting. For cold stores, down to - 30C, shorter tubes were used along with Semi Resonant Starting (SRS) that did away with the "starter".
I wasn't aware that 1800 mm tubes were available in 100 W variants Kelly.
I used to work for Thorn Lighting, well Smart and Brown lighting at the time, and recall their literature giving operating ranges for temperature with the 8 foot tubes being particularly susceptible to low temperature starting. For cold stores, down to - 30C, shorter tubes were used along with Semi Resonant Starting (SRS) that did away with the "starter".
