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Evening all,
I was asked last night if fluorescent lighting can make you feel sick, dizzy and have really bad headaches. I hadn't really ever thought about it till asked and I said they do flicker but had never heard of people feeling ill from it, but I said I would look into it. I've been searching the net and have found there are quite a lot of people that have suffered with this but I couldn't find any solutions to it. I am going to continue searching tho.
At the moment there are 4 rows of 6 4ft fluorescent switch start fittings which each have 4 lamps in. So if i was to change/ alter anything it would be a long job.
Has anyone heard of this before and is there anything we can do to prevent people feeling ill?
The lights are in a church hall so if I was to go down the high frequency route it could end up costing quite a bit, which they may not want to pay for.
I had thoughts of perhaps some thing at the DB end that could counter this or maybe re-lamp entire hall with a different lamp, but I'm not sure.

Thanks in advance to any help
 
Well at least they are about 5 X more reliable than HF ballasts. lol!! We've had nothing but trouble on the reliability side of things, since HF ballasts have become the norm for strip fluorescent fittings!!


Would never attempt to argue here fella, and I'm sure you have either installed or overseen a lot more installed than me, I usually do complete classroom refurbs in schools out with HF ballasts and colour 840 tubes (T5) of course, I reckon out of every 100 lights I install 2 don't work on energisation, 1 is knackered the other has a loose wire, But I am being 100% truthful when I say I hardly ever get recalled to site due to a light packing up in the 12 month warrenty period, I have had the odd problem and had to remove a light and put a new one in, but it is a rare thing, I love them, and prefer the colour from the old switch start white tube which looks yellow and flickers all day myself, I don't doubt though long term they will outlast a HF.

Mike
 
Would never attempt to argue here fella, and I'm sure you have either installed or overseen a lot more installed than me, I usually do complete classroom refurbs in schools out with HF ballasts and colour 840 tubes (T5) of course, I reckon out of every 100 lights I install 2 don't work on energisation, 1 is knackered the other has a loose wire, But I am being 100% truthful when I say I hardly ever get recalled to site due to a light packing up in the 12 month warrenty period, I have had the odd problem and had to remove a light and put a new one in, but it is a rare thing, I love them, and prefer the colour from the old switch start white tube which looks yellow and flickers all day myself, I don't doubt though long term they will outlast a HF.

Mike

That's probably the situation, we obviously install thousands of the things, with several different colour renditions for different requirements within hospital areas. I don't say that i don't like them, just that the ballast failure rate was far above the best non HF fittings. I guess they are improving the design all the time. Hopefully the units being supplied on this project, will have improved from the last experience!! lol!! The man/hours for replacing U/S ballasts was staggering!! lol!!
 

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