Thanks for the info, the web site is great! I will be looking for a couple
of starters tomorrow. Again thanks for the info and the web site as I have
marked it for future reference.




"Sam Goldwasser" wrote in message
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"Jim Douglas" writes:

I am troubleshooting my lights as they don't light and found that within
the
bulb area there are a set of parts that are unfamiliar with me. They are
in
series with the power line to each bulb and it looks like some type of
light
bulb, no identification, 1" long and very black/discolored towards the
tip,
wired in parallel with it device is a 1/2" plastic case thing that
looks as
though it contains staples from a common household stapler, possibly
some
type of inductor? What I have found from the mfg is that the wall wart
holds
the ballast. If it matters the bulbs are 17" long and are marked F15T8,
DWW,
RP

From your description, the blackened thing sounds like a glow tube starter
and the staple thing sounds like a capacitor. But, it wouldn't be in
series
with the lamp, but across the lamp connected to 1 set of the filament pins
at each end.

See:

http://repairfaq.ece.drexel.edu/sam/flamp.htm#wd

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