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Advance Ad-Lite Ballast in Arrow Preheat Shoplight Finally acquired one of these funky oddball ballasts. Despite being old and preheat, they also had some other anomalies about themselves, such as lower than normal line current apparently, and lack of a starting compensator. As found, apparently many of these fixtures (there were several of them, I have one of them) had 34-watt lamps installed, but surpirsingly none of the ballasts cooked. This one could easily have had 34's. I think these came out of somebody's basement in like Rhode Island or Massachusetts... Can somebody give an approximate year on this ballast? Keywords: Gear

Advance Ad-Lite Ballast in Arrow Preheat Shoplight

Finally acquired one of these funky oddball ballasts. Despite being old and preheat, they also had some other anomalies about themselves, such as lower than normal line current apparently, and lack of a starting compensator.

As found, apparently many of these fixtures (there were several of them, I have one of them) had 34-watt lamps installed, but surpirsingly none of the ballasts cooked. This one could easily have had 34's. I think these came out of somebody's basement in like Rhode Island or Massachusetts...

Can somebody give an approximate year on this ballast?

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Album name:GEsoftwhite100watts / florescent bulbs
Keywords:Gear
Company and Date Manufactured:Advance, 1950's?
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Date added:Apr 21, 2018
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streetlight98   [Apr 21, 2018 at 10:43 PM]
I bought these six fixtures from a guy who said they were in his grandfather's basement. His grandfather saved them from The Foundry, which was a huge mill in Providence. So these were originally from Providence, RI. Cool
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Apr 21, 2018 at 11:09 PM]
Interesting! It's funny how things get around. Having gotten a lot of stuff from other collectors I have quite a few lights from other places. For instance, back home I have a 3x40 preheat troffer in the garage which came from South Carolina, or I have a Regent mercury yard light someone here gave me which came from Michigan...

What ever happened to the other five? I can't quite remember.

Studying the endcap on these these remind me of the ones in your relatives' basement they ended up keeping...Was the one you had burn up violently identical to this?
streetlight98   [Apr 21, 2018 at 11:49 PM]
I still have the other five. All have been fully restored except one of the Westy lights, which I never got around to restoring before the weather turned cold. The ones that were fully restored are wrapped in bubble wrap to protect the paint and stored on the loft in my parents' shed. No room on the loft for any more fluorescent lights so dunno where the Westy is going to go. I might chain it up in the shed...

The one that burned up was not the same as this but the top channel was similar. The endcaps were "B" shaped to contour to the sockets and the reflector was much deeper. The ballast was a longjohn and a brick style (the size of a typical magnetic slimline ballast!) and IIRC it was "STARRING" brand or something. Had a neon green etch.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Apr 22, 2018 at 05:58 AM]
At least you have them for when you someday have your own place!
joe_347V   [Apr 22, 2018 at 08:59 AM]
Mine also came with a Ad-Lite ballast but older. Anyway, I installed a 1A inline fuse in mine and all my other F40 preheaters so hopefully prevent any ballast blowouts. Shocked

I have a few vintage fluorescent industrials, I installed the one from Mike and stashed the rest in my garage, including that massive 8' tandem F40 turret I rescued from school. The Benjamin fixture is in pretty good condition, while the CGE could use some new paint on the channel and the turret could probably get some new paint too. Will consider repainting them if I ever install them.

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