From: Richard S. Sullivan (richsul@earthlink.net)
Date: 06/20/01-02:14:04 PM Z
Keith,
You heard right but best to use a sheet of aluminium as the foil can come
loose and get into the circuitry and short out.
What you also need to do is ground the metlal above the bulbs. That's the
trick!
--Dick
At 03:39 PM 6/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, I must have been suffering from a braincramp at the time I built my
>lightbank, because I honestly thought I was being instructed (by some lost
>source) to put a sheet of aluminum foil between the fixtures and the plywood
>that holds them. In any event, after reading the posts by Kerik (and
>others) I saw the light and inserted a piece of foil directly above my
>tubes. While still not lighting immediately, they need only a brief swish
>from another piece of foil to bring them alive. Best of all, after they are
>warm they all DO light immediately when the timer is reset. Perhaps during
>a period of downtime I'll give Ken's advice a try and reverse some of the
>fixtures.
>
>Thanks to everyone for all of the suggestions.
>
>Keith
>
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