Flourecent Light Ballast Supplier??

[tod]

Hi Guy's-

I bought 30 double four foot lights from Lowes for my 30x60 pole barn. Installed lights and all work great. However, when I turned my radio on, nothing but interference....

I searched the forums here (a great resource) and found that I have the industrial ballast in all of my lights. I need to install the Residential Ballast; the part number is REB-4P32-SC....Lowes has them for $19.95 each (ouch!).

I'm not too good with a computer and I still have "dial-up" internet at home so it takes me forever to post a question. So, who or what company out there sells the Residential ballast I need? I went to ebay and found a company out of California, but I've never even bought anything on the internet. Can you guy's recommend a person or place that you TRUST and has a land-line so I can call them? I'll need 30 of them so I'm of course I'm looking for a deal too.

Thanks,
Tod

 

[olytdi]

Interested in this as well. I installed a total of 8 fixtures, each with 4 bulbs and my ballasts also are interference type. I wish I'd known this when I put them in. I'm now ready to bite the bullet and replace them but don't want to get taken to the cleaners either.

 

[djkyle65]

I had the same problem and I installed an FM antenna outside and now I can listen to my radio with the lights on. It only cost my like $40 and my radio signal is actually much better now so it was a win win.

 

[neel2008]

I had the same problem and I installed an FM antenna outside and now I can listen to my radio with the lights on. It only cost my like $40 and my radio signal is actually much better now so it was a win win.

^^^ This is my plan as well....No way I'm putting $20 ballasts in my $9 fixtures. lol

 

[cnttxmdc]

I had the same problem and I installed an FM antenna outside and now I can listen to my radio with the lights on. It only cost my like $40 and my radio signal is actually much better now so it was a win win.

Yep. And the same antenna you'd use for that SHOULD also work well for a little shop TV, if you choose to put one in there.

 

[spotco2]

Call the mfg and complain to them about the interference. That's what I did on mine.

They sent me a box of replacement ballast for free and told me to through the industrial ones away. It took a little complaining and 3 phone conversations, but they did it.

 

[tod]

Thanks for all the replies....I appreciate your advice.

 

[Kevin C]

One thing to know is that consumer ballasts typically don't have power factor correction. The actual power used will be the similar, but the peak current will be 30 to 50% higher.

If your running your lighting circuit close to its maximum, this could be a problem. The ballast you listed is a 4 lamp ballast and draws 1.57 AMP's.

Can you list the model# of your existing ballast?