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Philips "Alto II" T8 Lamps
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Got these at Home Depot. The T8's are much more expensive than the T12's. The cheapest box of 10 T8's is $25. Also noticed that Philips is using "Alto II", which supposedly contains even less mercury than the previous Alto series. Seems to work OK though.
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And yeah I wouldn't modify that preheat fixture, see if you can find some decent quality fixture to replace it.
Oh and have you thought about using magnetic T8 ballasts? They're harder to find but you get to keep the rapid start flicker and you also get the reliability of magnetic with T8s.
Did your die with that dim glowing discharge?