Robertson S40B preheat ballast installed in fixture

In my previous video of this ballast, I had it laying on the floor with pieces of wire running everywhere. Decided that this ballast needed a home and bought a fixture for it from True Value. The fixture is an American Fluorescent ST series strip light for one four foot F40T12 fluorescent lamp. Replaced the factory Radionics rapid start ballast with the Robertson preheat ballast. I cannibalized the starter and lamp sockets plus some wiring from a 2' F20T12 preheat strip for use in this fixture. Starter is a metal canned FS-4 by Regent Lighting that I also got from True Value. Not shown was the 2' F20T12 preheat fixture I found on clearance for $3 at Lowes which I took the sockets and wiring from. I choose the American Fluorescent brand fixtures on recommendation of DavidFromAE as they had a conveniently located knockout on the cover for the starter socket.

Once again, I'm running a Sylvania Octron F32T8 fluorescent lamp meant for electronic rapid-start ballasts on this magnetic preheat ballast.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Robertson
• Transformer
• S40B
• preheat
• ballast
• starter
• American
• Fluorescent
• ST
• strip
• light
• fixture
• Sylvania
• Octron
• 32
• Watt
• T8
• lamp

[BowlingMania14]

Neat little ballasts these things are. I have three of those myself. They have short leads.

[DDUFubar]

No way, electronic ballast`s,don`t flicker to start they are more energy efficient and don`t hum.

[DavidFromAE]

Excellent choice! The preheat F30 and F40 tower I have in the video where I fire up the F32T8 as well as the blinkfest 2009 video was made from 2 American Fluorescent strips tandem row mounted and then wired together. I also like the Regent starters best as far as new starters go. They seem to give the best blinkage of currently made starters.

[bamaslamma1003]

Cool! Who says you need an instant start electronic ballast to run T8's?