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Electronic ballast for Good Earth Lighting circline fixtures?
Hi... I realize this is an old post, but just in case you are still looking,
take a look at this. quoting: I've been having horrible luck with electronic ballasts on 9" circline fluorescent bulb fixtures. I used to have two Lights Of America ceiling fixtures in my kitchen, with the 9" bulbs. Their electronic ballasts never lasted more than a year, so I would bring them back, one after another, to Home Depot and turn them in under warranty. [...] I'm not relating this story merely to vent my frustration. I'm wondering about two things: 1. Why don't 9" fluorescent electronic ballast fixtures seem to last very long? I've had fixtures of this type in my kitchen for 3 or 4 years now, and I've never had to replace a single bulb because the ballasts keep blowing. Other types of electronic lights in my house don't have this problem, and I don't seem to have life expectancy problems with any other electronic gear in the house. Lights of America's ballasts use a pretty crude circuitry, which hammers the lamp pretty badly and burns out easily. 2. Where can I get an electronic ballast to replace the one that comes with the GEL fixtures? GEL does not have a website, and searching on the ballast part number turns up nothing. I've been to some ballast manufacturer sites, but I either can't find or don't know what I'm looking for. take a look at this. http://energyconservinglights.com/bi...30SMCW&search= This is a Maxlite product. Maxlite uses good quality ballasts in their fixtures. They are HPF (.95) and starting is a true programmed rapid start. Maxlite now makes a few more larger wattages of these fixtures. There are very few problems with Maxlite's ballasts. The fluorescent tube itself is imported from Asia, by the code of FCL30EX-L. The good thing is now guite a few companies import them now, so finding them is not a problem now. There is short-life problem with the fluorescent tubes themselves. The asian tubes are very inconsistent in quality. Many times you will not get more then two years out of them even on a proper ballast. The good thing is Maxlite will keep replaceing them. So any way you slice it, a Maxlite fixture won't give you ballast problems, but the tubes will probably burn out early. |
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