Thorn Weatherpack 2x58w - Rewired with amazing HF ballast! (now dead)

Here you see a Thorn Weatherpack, not sure of the exact model but will find out soon as it needs repairing! It's a reasonable quality unit though with decent plastics and stainless clips.

I rescued this from a skip a few years ago, it had been left with stuck starters but did work fine once they were replaced. Anyway back then I was just starting to get into this whole fascination with fluorescent lighting, unfortunately I had spent far too long researching things on the internet and I had come to the conclusion that HF gear was the future! It has no flicker, the tubes will last 1 million hours, it will save me £1 million per year, 80 mega-tonnes of carbon will be saved and 1x polar bear will be saved! (or some similar claims anyway). Thus this fixture was rewired with a new old stock HF Tridonic ballast.

This has been in use about 18 months and now the HF ballast is dead.

I am now well aware the perils of electronic ballasts and drivers. This will be coming down some time and re-rewired with Magnetic ballasts and electronic starters