How a Fluorescent starter works. VERY exciting
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I spend waaay too much time on YouTube watching great well put together videos like this one. Nice work!
jimmicreesti 6 days ago
Is it a blacklight tube?
Aspro4 2 months ago
cool !
smallblueclouds 3 months ago
Well done video! Sharply focused closeup and steady.
Nextime I find a starter, I will keep it just for the argon starter.
Interesting, Detroit!
Nice idea, limey Ian!
robertgift 5 months ago 2
@robertgift Sometimes. but generally the failure is from the contacts sticking together, this is what makes a tube glow at the ends and not strike - staying in 'pre-heat' mode. I have successfully 'repaired' a starter in the past by flicking the bulb and hence 'unsticking' the contacts, but this will likely be a short term fix.
2Steppa2 5 months ago
The colour of the glow can vary between manufacturers. If you drop the glass starter bulb on the concrete in the dark you will see a flash. (wait for your eyes to adjust to the dark first) That is the xenon oxidizing instantly in the air. Try it, it's really boring.
Detroit8V92tta 5 months ago
When I was a young lad I wired a starter in series with one of the two wires on the mains powered fairy lights on our Christmas tree. It made the fairy lights flash very randomly. If you guys have mains voltage fairy lights you should try it too. BUT STAY SAFE.
Ian. (from the U.K)
banjax66 6 months ago
@danagol1985 No, every starters are filled with argon and the electrical arc is always like in the video, but the the almost opaque white plastic cover of the starter can change the colour of the light coming from the starter arc to orange.(because of some compounds in the plastic).
paul9511 6 months ago
Does it mean they are filled with neon when starters glow orange, instead of blue?
danagol1985 6 months ago
@marx939 It has confused me, that is, until an old starter went blink happy on me, and the bimetallic contacts caught a spark and spot welded themselves together, it killed the light's ballast, but it was fun to watch a blink happy starter once more
TheSoxmania 7 months ago