On Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 8:47:05 AM UTC-5, Don Y wrote:

If possible, I'd look at the transformer to see it's rated secondary
voltage (is it a transformer for an incandescent lamp? or, a *ballast*
for a fluorescent one??!) as well as its power rating (may be present
on a nameplate, somewhere).


....you sure write a lot without reading his 1st sentence!

"I have a fluorescent desk light..."