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Re: [Shop-talk] Shop light problems - update

To: Richard Beels <rbeels@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Shop light problems - update
From: Darrell Walker <darrellw@ipns.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 07:16:34 -0700
Since several have asked:

> The new ones are Sylvania (the original were Sunpak).  The model number is
"QTP 2X32T8/UNV ISN-SC" (which mostly is just the rating, for two 32W T8
bulbs).  I got them at Home Depot.

The replacements are also electronic.

-Darrell

On Aug 8, 2010, at 10:51 PM, Richard Beels wrote:

> ballast info?
>
>
> At 08/08/10 at 19:00, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Darrell Walker's
keyboard and said:
>
>> Anyway, I decided to try replacing the ballast this
>> time.  The replacement ballast is nearly twice the size of the stock
ballast,
>> and twice as heavy.  It wired up a bit differently (the original had more
>> separate wires, the replacement mostly wires each end of the bulbs
together).
>> But it fired right up with the new ballast, and even seems brighter.
What's
>> more, I decided to try the "bad" bulbs (ones that no longer worked even in
the
>> best of the original fixtures), and every one of them was fine with the
>> replacement ballast!  I'm glad I hadn't had time to take them to the
hazardous
>> waste drop off.
>
>
> Cheers!
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