replaced fluorescent bulbs and they still flicker
Oh thankyou for helping me out.
I thought it seemed strange........so you are saying that my fixture is not high frequency ballast, but is just mains frequency with the current limiting being done by a big inductor somewhere in the fixture?
Also, the starter, the little cylindrical thing.........i cracked the old one open and all i see is a glass cylinder with wires going into it, and what looks like a capacitor........i cant see through the glass because it looks like there is a kind of silvering over the inside of it, which obscures my view.
....do you know what is inside this glass cylinder?...if it is just a switch...then how does it know when to come on and go off again?
also, i now know from your excellent replies that i am behind the times.......do you think my unit has a low power factor?.....and is it less efficient than a high frequency ballast type one?