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Lights Of America 2x 40w Electronic-Switchstart 4' Shoplight 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) --- Saw these 2 at a garage-sale today. They wanted $3 for the pair..

Lights Of America 2x 40w Electronic-Switchstart 4' Shoplight

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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Filename:LOA_2SL.jpg
Album name:XmasLightGuy / Fluorescent Fittings
Manufacturer:Lights Of America
Wattage:2x 40w
Filesize:251 KiB
Date added:10 Apr, 2016
Dimensions:1280 x 613 pixels
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AngryHorse   [10 Apr, 2016 at 08:36 AM]
I like these, nice and neat Cool
Funkybulb   [10 Apr, 2016 at 02:16 PM]
these are interesting but POS, when ballast goes i save the electronic starter board.
XmasLightGuy   [10 Apr, 2016 at 11:33 PM]
@AngryHorse: I do agree these are nice & neat. I like the look of then, its just the quality that's lacking Laughing

@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 Smile
FrontSideBus   [02 Feb, 2019 at 05:27 PM]
Interesting design.
Ash   [02 Feb, 2019 at 05:59 PM]
Choke for 103V lamp on 120V that's impressive, even with capacitor in circuit. Is the starter by any chance not exactly a starter but takes part in restrike after each half cycle ?

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