Transtar electronic start magnetic ballast

quite a big ballast, it does not start like the vivatronics (where you hear it spring to life) more like a pulse starter.. quick spot of glow at the cathodes, then we are lit. not sure how these cope at EOL, currently fitted in a wickes batten.
It starts T12 tubes fine

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Kev

[25 Dec, 2023 at 05:42 PM]

Tidy ballast that!

Arrowslim

[27 Dec, 2023 at 03:27 PM]

it, with a GE hungary Kolorite comes on at 2am every morning to wake me for work, stays on for a few hours after I am long into work too! I found these Hungary GE's are decent enough tubes, but even though they are not shielded, they don't really band up so well

dor123

[31 Aug, 2024 at 05:56 AM]

The Electronic-Start ballast of Shaingout actially had a cylindrical place for Arlen EFS600 pulsestarter.

Ash

[31 Aug, 2024 at 08:09 PM]

The EFS was in one of the versions of the 105W ballast. The 36/40 electronic start ones had it potted in the case of a capacitor didnt they ?

dor123

[31 Aug, 2024 at 08:39 PM]

See here how the Shaingout Electronic-Start behaves with EOL 36W T8: This is exactly the same behaveior of Arlen Pulsestarters.
The cylinder in the Electronic-Start, isn't a capacitor, but a case for the EFS600 starter, exactly like the 105W ballast.

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Transtar electronic start magnetic ballast

quite a big ballast, it does not start like the vivatronics (where you hear it spring to life) more like a pulse starter.. quick spot of glow at the cathodes, then we are lit. not sure how these cope at EOL, currently fitted in a wickes batten. It starts T12 tubes fine

quite a big ballast, it does not start like the vivatronics (where you hear it spring to life) more like a pulse starter.. quick spot of glow at the cathodes, then we are lit. not sure how these cope at EOL, currently fitted in a wickes batten.
It starts T12 tubes fine