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Overview of the Garage
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Yes, very cluttered. I had to trailblaze my way to the lights lol. The one in the back corner was the strobing one, the one to the left was the one with 1 good lamp, the one above the pic is the T8 shoplite, and the one not shown is the one with the broken pullchain switch. The T8 isn't any brighter, probably due to the fact that these preheaters don't underdrive lamps like RS ballasts typically do... The T8 is instant start and runs a pair of 32W Altos
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Is that one of those LOA capacitive shoplights above the workbench (that isn't turned on)?
I also spy the older white Essex romex I think. Now #12 (which I'm assuming this is) is yellow.
How old is the house?
yeah that's an LOS shoplite. the new light i have (pictured standing upright near the left margin) was replaced by that thing. It had two T12 CW altos... Not sure of the age of the hosue but i think the garage is 1960s...
So did your cousin's family inherit the house I'm guessing? Or is he still around but not really "there"?
My aunt and uncle built their house onto my aunt's parents' house. Their house is from 2006-ish and this house is probably over 100 years old. The garage was built in the 60s i think... The lights were added at the time of the garage being built but they were NOS from his workplace. My aunt, uncle, and three cousins live in their half of the double- house and my aunt's mom lives in here half which is connected to this garage.
The Lowe's stores near me don't even sell starters! Or at least not that I'm aware of... Are they with the fluorescent ballasts? If so, no they don't sell them here. HD sells them for $1.17 for a 2-pack. It's no big deal. I was just a bit concerned about the flickering after power is cut since i don't want to hurt the fixture if I'll be getting it since I doubt I'll ever come accross a preheat two-lamp ballast in mint condition. I can only imagine what state the cloth wires inside are. I don't actually know if they're cloth, but odds are that they are since these fixtures are either 50s or 60s vintage.
BTW, the preheaters were actualy installed NOS. They were leftovers from my cousin's grandpa's work. I had to know for sure from his wife (my cousins' grandma) since I was a tad confused on how these actually got here. They look like the white inner side of the reflector was repainted at one time or another and it looks very sloppy too lol.
Anyways the only place I've seen that has a real Tulamp ballast for sale is eBay for around 33 but I guess a couple of single lampers could work in a pinch.
This looks kinda like my garage though, pretty cluttered!
I would try to get these someday if I were you, especially since the fixtures and lamps to replace them are already though.