On 12/04/2012 19:20, Andrew Mawson wrote:
"Adam Funk" wrote in message ...

I have a couple of fluorescent light fittings in the house, each
containing two fairly standard tubes and two 120 volt starters. I
know the starters need to be 120 volt ones because I discovered a few
years ago that 240 volt ones won't start the lights.

I think I need some new starters again, but every electrical &
lighting shop I've tried so far doesn't have them, and a quick WWW
search only shows them in the USA (where they are obviously useful).

Are double-tube fittings wired this way obsolete now?

I needed some 120v ones recently (for a fly killer that uses two uv
tubes in series) and found some on ebay fairly easily.

Have you been able to find a supplier of the the old style magnetic
chokes these things seem to use? I have two dead fly killers where the
fluoros 2x 110vac magnetic ballast has burned out. The only place I
could find online advertising them did not in fact have any stock

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Regards,
Martin Brown