fluorescent tubes

peat

This may seem pretty naive, but if a tube goes on the blink how do you know if you need to replace the tube or the starter.
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N9eav

The tube will usually not illuminate if the starter is bad, but will illuminate and flicker if the tube is bad.
Either way, both components cost very little and so a spare of each will not cost the earth

peat

Thanks for that,
Cheers
Peat

Jockthearab

We have these tubes at work. Local sparky recommends if tube goes, replace starter too. Seems logical I suppose ???