When my wife's 30 year old (it was her father's) yellow single line
Weed Eater finally died earlier this year I got her a Sthil electric.
Works great, she loves it.
pethier@comcast.net wrote:
> EarthWise electric string trimmer. Run away.
>
> Bought one of these and that was a mistake. Lousy balance. Ran through all
>of the string in half of my yard. The bang button was worn out making it
>impossible to wind on new string and continue.
>
> Threw it in the trash and bought a HomeLite electric and it's working fine.
>No bump button. It advances a little every time you shut off for two seconds.
>
> Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
> 1973 Triumph Stag LE22439UB "uncle jack"
> 2004 Suburban 8.1
> 2005 Lotus Elise
> 2007 Saturn Ion 3 2.4
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> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> From: "Randall"<tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
>> Cc: shop-talk@autox.team.net
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 6:29:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Shop light problems - update
>>
>>> If you turn them on
>>> and off a dozen times a day, you'll kill tubes pretty quickly,
>> I guess "pretty quickly" is a relative term ... I've got instant start
>> T12
>> bulbs& (mostly) mag ballasts in my garage, and probably half the
>> bulbs have
>> never been changed since we moved in some 20 years ago.
>>
>> One of the kitchen lights is as Darrell described : electronic
>> "instant
>> start" ballasts driving T8 bulbs. It gets turned on& off many times
>> per
>> day, but was only installed about 4 years ago, so no idea how long the
>> bulbs
>> will last.
>>
>> I agree that doing "instant start" on a bulb not designed for it will
>> quickly kill the bulb (I once built a fluorescent strobe light that
>> would
>> kill bulbs in a few days); but the garage T12 bulbs are designed for
>> it
>> (only one pin per end), and it's my understanding that the T8 bulbs
>> are as
>> well (even though they have two pins per end).
>>
>> -- Randall
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