I tested that thing last night after scrapping the plastic body of the fixture, with a crappy generic F15T8/CW and the thing started smoking instantly. So I think something in there is toast. Mine had a choke, unlike GE's version, an electronic LOA-shoplight-style starter board and a capacitor too. I will post pics.
I hate 3 phase and all it's different combos. I was helping someone wire in a used generator the previous owner had wired for 3 phase and it had already taken multiple electrician-type people before us to get us that far. It's successfully wired for single phase 120v/240v now but the output is like 103v instead of 120v. Any idea why? (besides engine speed, we tried adjusting RPM). I should ask Darren this. Not that it really matters, just seems strange.
I'm also am AM-radio "DX'er" and also do some one FM. My area is quire rural and has one NPR radio station serving the area, that's it on FM *or so I thought, will get to that later*. They're uniqie though, not many public radio stations play stuff like Danzing's "Mother", Skillet's "Hero", Breaking Benjamin's "Breath", gangster rap, or 60s-70s rock music at all. They also play plenty of jazz/classical/etc. though, as well as country.
Anyway I discovered I can (just barely) hear an FM public radio station from a town (Petersburg, AK) probably easily a hundred miles and some mountains away. Their main advertised frequency is 100.9 MHz but I swear it was elsewhere on the dial I heard it, somewhere around 92-ish. My dad had claimed he knew of cases of hearing that radio station around here but I had suspected that to be confused with a now-gone-silent Christian AM radio station you indeed could hear just barely on their daytime power (but covered up in "splatter" from others at night). But I guess it's true, this one is on FM. I can only hear it in one little corner of my bedroom (where my head rests actually) with a Sony headset radio with meh reception, I now want to try something a bit...ahem...better...now. I think it may be a weather/atmosphere related thing though, I'm trying again tonight and definately on some night that isn't cloudy. (Which was when I heard it).
I can hear San Francisco, CA on AM on most nights after dark too, as well as Portland and Seattle.