oh dear.... when forums aren't very helpful

Postby **fluorescent** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 4:38 am

Just stumbled across this old forum thread. Get ready to shout at your screen!

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussio ... t-question

Postby **Slyspark** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 5:26 am

Makes you want to bang your head against the wall! There goes another SRS fitting cos all the people who responded were clueless idiots!

Postby **OsramAwesomness2** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 12:19 pm

What a bunch of fucking dumb shit heads they know absolutely fuck all about fluorescent lights

Postby **RobTDCI** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 4:51 pm

That old saying about a little knowledge being a dangerous thing.

Postby **AngryHorse** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 5:33 pm

I liked this bit, "The 85W tubes were fazed out some time ago.", he sounded quite good until I saw this strange new word, `fazed`????????
I saw the classic, `starter motor` come up too, surly it wasn`t impossible for him to locate a 6 foot T12?

Postby **fluorescent** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 6:03 pm

Every time I read this thread it gets worse.

"Buy a warm white tube. If it still doesn't work, then the problem may be in the ballast"

"Just replace the whole fitting. Then you'll know exactly what you're dealing with" -Just why. This isn't helpful

Postby **Danny** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 6:07 pm

A t12 tube would of been easy to source back in 2008 when this thread was posted. I wonder what the fitting was.

Postby **fluorescent** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 6:08 pm

surly it wasn`t impossible for him to locate a 6 foot T12?

Back in 2008, before the EU dictatorship decided "T12 = BAD", I would think you could have bought a 6ft T12 from any DIY shed

...I wonder what the fitting was.

Oddly enough, the link the OP put to their Tiscali web-space no longer works, I can't think why lol! I was wondering the same, Philips PC440 ballast suggests it would have been some version of a Philips Streamlite/Crompton Crompack

Postby **Danny** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 7:04 pm

Ah ouch

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