On May 5, 12:17 pm, "RBM" rbm2(remove wrote:
Assuming your fixture is using 2 T-12 U bent lamps, Keystone Industries
makes an electronic ballast Cat # KTEB-240-1-TP-PIC

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On May 5, 6:49 am, "RBM" rbm2(remove wrote:
Certainly the ballast can be bad. Be sure the pins of the FB tubes are
snapped into the sockets. Sometimes they don't make it all the way in. If
you replace the ballast, get an electronic retrofit ballast, as opposed
to
the standard magnetic ballast. They make them now for T12 lamps as well
as
T8, and they work so much more reliably

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I have an "U" shaped fluorescent light in my kitchen that may or may
not come on at the first flip of the switch. If you rapidly flip the
switch several times, then it will come on and stay on. It is the
only light on the circuit. I hadn't changed a thing on the circuit, so
it shouldn't be something I did. We changed the bulb and changed the
switch but it still did the same thing. I have another fluorescent
light exactly the same next to it (two lights in the kitchen) and it
works fine. Would the ballast be bad?

Thanks

Thanks for your answer. Where can I purchase the electronic ballast
and what numbers do I look for in the replacement. I will take the
old ballast with me when I go, but I'm sure I won't find a guide that
will tell me a replacement ballast for the one I have.

Thanks again.

Thanks to all who answered. I replaced the old ballast with a new one
purchased at a national builders chain and it worked. Replacing it was
a lot easier than I thought it would be. The only problem I had was
that the new wires were too short so I cut the wires (and ends) from
the old ballast and put them on the new ballast with wire nuts. They
didn't have new ends so I was going to have to use the old ones
anyways. This actually worked better because the store geek told me I
had to pull the old wires off of the ends and plug in the new wires.
That kinda bothered me. It didn't seem to me that doing it like that
would make for a dependable connection in the future. Thanks again.