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These are just the undercabinet channels, the lamps are out of the picture except for the T5s. The little choke belongs to the longer fixture and is an exposed F8T5 ballast.
Keywords: Misc_Fixtures

ReStore Finds for today:

These are just the undercabinet channels, the lamps are out of the picture except for the T5s. The little choke belongs to the longer fixture and is an exposed F8T5 ballast.

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Album name:Mike / My Collection
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joe_347V   [Feb 20, 2013 at 02:41 AM]
Hmm, I see the three Robertson F13 ballasts have backwards labels. Also that F8T5 ballast looks similar to the one in my Lampi undercabinet fixture. Any idea when were they made and who made these fixtures?
streetlight98   [Feb 20, 2013 at 02:47 AM]
There are actually four robertson ballasts; three preheat and one RS. The 30W undercabinet light has an Advance ballast dated to 1993. The little choke dates to May 1999, which I'd guess the Robertsons to be the same. The fixtures were made by Day-O-Lite which is based right here in RI! right next door to me in Warwick, RI. Smile
joe_347V   [Feb 20, 2013 at 02:57 AM]
Interesting, over here most fixtures are made by either Lithonia and Cooper or more local companies such as Visioneering in Toronto (quite common apparently, I have a bunch of lights from them), CFI in Cornwall, Thomas Lighting in Markham, and Peerless in Montreal. Razz
A_lights   [Feb 20, 2013 at 02:19 PM]
Interesting! Do you have a pic of the advance ballast?
streetlight98   [Feb 20, 2013 at 03:00 PM]
no, but I can take one. Interestingly, it lists 25w, 30, 34, and 40W T12s but not 30W T12s, which it wired for.
joe_347V   [Feb 20, 2013 at 04:56 PM]
Odd, I have a similar ballast from Universal and that lists 30w lamps and 40w lamps. Most F40 ballasts should be able to run 30w lamps anyways in fact most Canadian RS F40 ballasts were listed to run 30w lamps too.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Mar 27, 2013 at 03:51 AM]
Looks like you had one wired up for testing?
What are your plans for the F30 fixture?
streetlight98   [Mar 27, 2013 at 10:24 AM]
yep i had tested all of them and everything works.

i guess i didn't tell you guys... i mounted the F30 in the laundry room on the wall next to the door. I guess I'll grab a pic later this afternoon.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Mar 27, 2013 at 03:12 PM]
So with that and the preheater in there it must be nice and bright!
streetlight98   [Mar 27, 2013 at 07:07 PM]
eh not really lol. The area where the F30 is mounted is nice and bright but the corner where my lights are is the same. the RS always starts like a programmed start electronic ballast it waits a second and flashes on with no blink happiness. Sad
joe_347V   [Mar 27, 2013 at 07:40 PM]
Hmm, I thought the LPF ballasts had better startup flicker or at least mine does. You could always try your Magnetek ballast if it has full length leads.
streetlight98   [Mar 27, 2013 at 10:11 PM]
Maybe with the F40t12s they blink more. My HPF ballasts seem to blink more. Do HBF ballasts flicker or blink more or less at startup than NBF or LBF ballasts?

Also, do you mean the Universal ballast? becuase i don't own any magnetek ballasts. Razz anyways, the universal ballast's leads are just long enough to wire it to a F20T12 lamp. I had to tape the sockets to the lamp when i tried the ballast with an F20 lamp because the wires were too taut.
A_lights   [Mar 28, 2013 at 01:35 AM]
Universal/magnetek/triad (now called universal lighting technologies) are all the same company
streetlight98   [Mar 28, 2013 at 01:56 AM]
have they always been or were the companies merged like with cooper merging Westinghouse, McGraw-Edison, etc?
A_lights   [Mar 28, 2013 at 02:07 AM]
i have no idea, but ive seen ballasts with two or more names on them such as Triad/Magnetek 4 lamp ballast from Kmart
streetlight98   [Mar 28, 2013 at 02:10 AM]
hmm. interesting. the universal ballasts that i have are simply universal marked. that's a two lamp RS from '73 and a NPF single lamp from '83 (i think it's '83 lol)

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