Don Klipstein wrote:
In article , LouB wrote:
Chuck wrote:
beecrofter wrote:
Try brushing your fingers down the length of the tubes, it has always
worked on cheap shoplights for me.
I have been having the same trouble and found that brushing my fingers
down the length of the bulb works. (sometimes)
If you are not just joking. Why?

Sometimes this helps where the recomended grounding is lacking, or where
the bulbs have a coating of slightly-conductive dirt/dust. The
explanation is that touching the bulb can overcome the above in favor of
increasing electric field intensity ("voltage gradient") within an
unstarted bulb where it needs to be increased.

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- Don Klipstein )

Thanks
Lou