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Thu 7 Apr, 2005 09:47 pm
6 months ago I had an electrican put in 2 double tube fluorscent lights in my garage,(same switch) for the 1st month both worked fine but since then I have never had all 4 tubes fully lit and now I only get a dim glow and flicker from all 4 tubes and occassionaly one or two of the tubes will just dimly glow. Every once in a while one or two tubes will fully light.
Hi Dys. Take all the tubes out and switch them around. Be as anal as you want with this: mark each one with a different letter ...
or just switch them around and put them back in ,,
,, if the result is the same, it's one of two things:
poor installation (improper ground will cause the ballasts to fail)
or more likely,
the cheap Home Depot fixtures he or she bought weren't that good in the first place. (Hint: if the tubes are getting black on the ends, it's an indication of the ballast not punching enough voltage into the gas.)
Joe(There's nothing to see here, move along)Nation
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