Pulsestarter fault?

[Liam]

I've recently installed a pulse starters in my Fitzgerald 6ft fitting and its acting very strange, sometimes it starts the tube and other times when you turn it on it doesn't do anything not even pulses. I pinched it from school a while ago and if i remember rightly some 6ft twin fittings in the DT room did the same but i put the blame on the cap which i now know it was the pulsestarters. Has anyone experienced this with Pulsestarters and does anyone know why its happening?

[Danny]

Cos they're shit. Sometimes they won't strike tubes over 5' glow starters ftw

[Kev]

I've had this before lol!

[johndom123]

The soldering can go bad (dry joints), pop it out of its case and carefully re-solder the joints with a fine point iron. It'll work again!

[BC5-80]

I've used quite a few of them over the past 20+ years (all 20+ years old) and I've never known one be faulty. If it's more recent soldering issues I bet I know the cause: lead-free solder in the name of 'environmental friendliness' that renders it useless for the purpose.

[Slyspark]

I fit loads and other than the odd dead out of the box one, or one that fails after a fw years, I can't say I'e had any big problems. You expect one in every so many to be dead, I just take them back and the wholesalers replace them.