On 6/4/2008 12:21 PM spake thus:

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 05:04:06 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote:

How odd that the word transformer doesnt even get a mention in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballast_%28electrical%29

Keep digging, you'll be out in china any day now.

Guess these guys didn't believe an amateur entry in Wikipedia:

http://www.saveonlighting.com/subcat...er __ecf_.htm

That *is* a transformer (or it contains a transformer); we're talking
about the "old school" ballasts, which are just inductors.

But what I said before about not bothering arguing w/this asshole still
holds.


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