On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:40:37 GMT, "James Sweet"
wrote:


Reason is I have some older non working
older type fluorescents fixtures that I intend to update and respray that
have those little aluminum can type starters that definitely worked on
115
AC.

These must use a step-up transformer.

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They do, and they were quite common at one time. One other advantage they
have is that they lack separate windings providing continuous power to the
filaments in the tubes so the total power consumption is several watts
lower.

The power savings is perhaps 1 watt per lamp and perhaps another watt
in the ballast. The downside is much shorter lamp life. Rapid Start
ballasts are by far the most common type of EM ballast use for 4-foot
fluorescent lamps in the US.

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Vic Roberts
http://www.RobertsResearchInc.com
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