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From: don on 10 May 2010 01:19 "Don Klipstein" <don(a)manx.misty.com> wrote in message news:slrnhueam9.d2h.don(a)manx.misty.com... > In article <hrtkca$d29$1(a)reader1.panix.com>, don wrote: > >>I have a Luxo asymmetrical task light which takes an 18 watt bulb, which >>is >>starting to give me trouble. Most of the time it will just flicker as if >>it >>is trying to come on, but sometimes it will flicker once or twice and then >>come right on. When it does come on it shines bright. Luxo will not >>support >>this task light anymore because they say it is too old??? even though it >>was supposedly guaranteed for life. What is causing this intermittant >>problem and how could I fix it? I hate to throw the light out because it >>was around $200 when I bought it and it does work fine after it lights up. > > This does remind me of a recent story in Usenet where someone was trying > to fix a some-somewhat-similar lighting unit having an 18 watt compact > fluorescent bulb, and achieved the fix by replacing the "starter" with the > guts of a FS-4 "fluorescent lamp starter", despite the wattage and the > voltage drop of the "starterless ballast-less CFL" that I am most > familiar with being more suitable for using the guts of a FS-2 "starter". > > One thing that everybody should keep in mind for fluorescent fixtures > that need "starters" that are separate from ballasts: Bad "bulbs"/"lamps" > are hard on starters, and bad starters are hard on "bulbs/lamps/tubes". > This probably explains sonmewhat-common advice to replace the starter > when replacing the "bulb". > > - Don Klipstein (don(a)misty.com) Thanks for all this information.......... I"m looking at the ballast and it has a brown spot on it and so does the bottom of the bulb..... |