My kitchen strip light has stopped working. I've replaced with known working starters and known working tubes from other known working lights, and it doesn't come on. Symptoms are the starter will occasionally spark, and when the starter sparks the tube will occasionally try to strike, eventually, lighting if I turn the wall switch on and off many times. This morning I counted and got to 50 on/offs at one second intervals before the tube struck and stayed on.
Is this a dead fitting? Dead ballast? Dead something-else? From previous threads it would appear to be cheaper to replace the fitting than to try and replace the ballast. I think it was new in the mid-1990s.
jgh