Was that a Lights of America product? I have noticed a lot of
complaints about them. A few are for making products that require
proprietary bulbs that they since discontinued. More are for
life/reliability issues and for falling short of claimed light output.



LOA is usually pure junk. The curious thing I've noticed about them is that
at least in the past, they used top quality Japanese tubes with about the
cheapest most junky Chinese ballasts I've ever seen. I don't think I ever
had one of the ballasts last long enough to wear out a tube so the
replaceable aspect is not really worth much.