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Lights Of America 2x 40w Electronic-Switchstart 4' Shoplight
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A LOA (Lights Of America) 2-lamp 4-foot "shoplite" fitting.
These are...
well...
one of those crappy cheaply made things...
The type of thing that most would agree its kind of a piece of crap.
But at the same time sorta unique in the way they operate, and something that every 'light collector' should have one of.
The metal is paper thin - like to the point you could probably fold this up with your bare hands, the ballasts (2 of them, one in each end) consist of a small choke, & a capacitor. Instead of using a normal starter, they have a small electronic board.
Ballast has no thermal protection, and it doesn't take too much 'abuse' to make it go up in smoke (the primary reason I consider these crappy fittings)
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Saw these 2 at a garage-sale today. They wanted $3 for the pair..
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@Funkybulb:
I save the starter and capacitor. One of them I converted to rapid-start (2 single-lamp ballasts). Another I took fully apart, and kept the metal too...it now lives on as parts of various home-built fittings