chocolatemalt wrote:

Get electronic ballasts. You'll be glad you did.


These failing Sunpark ballasts are in fact electronic, so no luck there.
They are instant-on with nice light output... I had no complaints before
their short expiration date was up.

Don't feel too bad, I have 26 of them. They were installed a little over
two years ago, and one by one they're all starting to fail (ballasts) --
right on schedule.

The sad part is it's cheaper to throw the whole fixture away than to
repair the ballast.