aczr2k
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Friend of mine has a snap on trouble light p/n ECU 4150 and it quit working, snap on won't warranty, took it apart and this part is burned out, does anyone know what it is? If you jumper across this the light comes on.
Trouble with snap on trouble light??
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Greatbear
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Fluorescent trouble light? This looks like the starter tube. Very common in the days before rapid start ballasts and electronic inverter-type ballasts. If you momentarily jumper the starter and it works, this needs to be replaced, Problem is, these are very hard to find like this, but can be had by prying open an old-school fluorescent "can"-style bi-pin starter used on a lamp of the approximate same wattage. If yours is 13 watt, get one for a lamp about 12-15 watts, pry open the tabs holding the can on the base, remove the starter tube/bulb by unsoldering or clipping the leads, and solder it into your light assembly.
Greatbear
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The can style refers to the starter. Small metal cylinder about an inch in diameter and not quite 2 inches long, with two round pins for contacts. Find them in the big box stores where the fluorescent lamps and ballasts are kept.
Panvic
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This assembly is named as a starter for fluorescent lamps.
This is a very simple device. As soon as the lights turn on the switch, through this element begins to leak current. Gaseous environment inside the bulb warms up contacts, and they opened.
Until the current flows through the starter heated tungsten filament in the fluorescent lamp, and prepare a lamp to glow.
If we were anywhere in Antarctica, and there would not be shopping, then this may be the starter of the chain be deleted and replaced with the standard push-button switch. And run the glow of the lamp by hand.
This element is only need to automate the process of ignition in the lamp glow.
P.S. Excuse me for my poor English.
Victor