On Sep 19, 3:33*am, wrote:
Hello all,

This little electronic ballast for a 11W fluorescent tube (2 pin one)
failed.
I found a bad electrolitic a fried 1.2 ohm resistor and a shorted
active device which I failed to identify. Looks like a TO-126
transistor, it is marked Si 1300313.
There's another identical transistor, but either is burned too (but
not shorted like the other) or isn't either BJT nor mosfet as every
terminal has some measurable resistance (in the hundreds of ohms
range) with every other terminal, either polarity (but resistance is
different with polarity reversed).
Any hint on how to identify this? Would be easier to just buy another
one, but this stupid thing failed after only 8 months use, I wouldn't
want to change ballasts more often than lamps.

Thanks in advance and best regards
Francesco

was it an FEIT lamp, they have ntoriously short life? They are fun to
play with but not to really repair.