now i can see why they are pushing the 5 ft fittings with electronic ballasts...

R200 for a fitting
R125 for a replacement ballast and they dont last long...which could be a whole lot of factors but we wont go into that today...and the harmonics they generate in large building we wont go into that today either.

the old type 5 ft double fitting was R125 ex vat
replacent ballast R30 and you only needed to replace 1 if it packed up...and only 1 lamp would be out...the beuty about the old type fitting is most of the time it was just a lamp which required replacement but i always changed the starter at the same tme because they were only R3.50...

now with the new 5 ft fitting...both lamps go out...so its good money for me to do repairs...smart move light fitting guys

when i requested the old type fitting today sorry no stock...