Here is the small reactor ballast in the wallpack. Not very big. Ignitor on the side, and the socket and photocell is mounted on the cover that goes over the ballast.
Yup, seems like American Electric liked to use the same ignitors (even ballast) for whatever type of fixture they used. Even cooper did the same thing I think.
On a busted post top I salvaged a ballast from a long time ago (I think that ballast is currently in my 313 power pad... If not it's the loose one that I have laying around) and the ballast was identical and ignitor too to the one that was found inside the 113 that I currently have and 113's from a while ago.
GE did the same thing. Their wallpacks use the same ignitor as their cobraheads, though they are not plug in (they mount the ignitor with a screw to the housing using the little "handle" on the top) and connect the wires to the flat contacts on the bottom of the ignitor that normally plug into the base in the cobrahead. Kinds clever they can use the same ignitor for plug-in or none-plug in. Cooper does the same thing now with their cube ignitor, designing a base that allows the cube ignitor's spade terminals to plug into a base. So the cube is turned upside-down and plugged into an octagonal base! Kinda cool. AEL has like three different ignitors for open, open plug-in, and encapsulated plug in.
Interesting. I know Cooper's PSMH yardlights used the same cube ignitor as their other fixtures but used a cheap ballast core. I wonder why AEL had so many different types of ignitor, seems the other manufacturers have the same type lol.
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On a busted post top I salvaged a ballast from a long time ago (I think that ballast is currently in my 313 power pad... If not it's the loose one that I have laying around) and the ballast was identical and ignitor too to the one that was found inside the 113 that I currently have and 113's from a while ago.