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Good afternoon, First, my apologies if someone already covered this topic. I did do a search but found nothing specifically for what I'd like to accomplish. Second, I just registered today, I'm very new - please be gentle :eek: I have a large amount of new T8 electronic ballasts (4 lamp)...

Replacing the bulbs didn't work so I decided to replace the ballast (probably screwed up letting the thing flicker for days-- evidently that's bad). However, having taken it apart, I notice something odd: when switch is on I get the expected 120 V from the two wires, but when it's off I get...

Hi all, I am new to this site, and appreciate all the help. My mom has a little 2 ft flourescent fixture over her sink that stopped working. We replaced the starters and could sometimes see a little blue light on the end of them when jiggling them so I assumed the switch had power. We took the...

My house was built in the 1940s and does not have the third groud wire. Recently the flourescent light in my kitchen ( which was operational for Years ) suddenly blew out. Since then I have replaced both the bulbs and the ballast twice, only to have the ballst blow out on me within hours. My...

I am re-doing my bathroom and was tearing out the drywall about 2 feet away from the vanity flourescent light fixture, which is only about 2 months old. All was well and then I had to bang on the drywall with my hammer and the lights went dim and bluey-green, then shut off altogether. I could...

The source of this problem is in France, but I think that there is no national difference in this case. We have a long hallway in which there are four light fittings which are all switched via a single bistable relay with several buttons along the walls. Most of the time it all works fine -...

I would like to add additional fluorescent drop-in fixtures to our drop ceiling in the basement. I'd like to install fixtures with three bulbs in each. I know that these can be wired up (assuming the ballasts are wired correctly) so that one switch on the wall turns on the middle light, and...