Angry Sounding Thorn Vivatronic Ballast Startup

(Apologies for the blank space at the start and end - Having issues with my video editor at the moment...so you can have blank space or serious audio glitching...figured you'd rather have the blank space).

Couldn't leave without grabbing a recording of this for you lot.

Found during my most recent two stays at the Mercure Livingston Hotel (when by pure chance I ended up with the same room), was this noise greeting you when you first open the door and turn the lights on.

Aside from a few spot replacements, everything here seems to be magnetic geared and mostly Philips/Thorn. The light over the desk still had what I assume was the original Thorn-EMI 30W tube in it. Elsewhere is all Philips/Sylvania. Surely a rare sight these days!

Be back up there in November, just crossing my fingers that they've not refitted the place. I'll *try* to get a few more lighting shots this time. I'd hoped I would last time but I just ran out of time in the end!