Philips eoclick fluorescent starter

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I belive that should be ^"open"^

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In my experience, a glow switch starter is normally open. The glow heats a bimetal strip, causing the starter to close. Once the starter closes, it is no longer producing heat, so it opens. The inductive kick from the ballast then pushes through a few hundred milliamps. If that goes through the starter, preferably the starter then glows with "abnormal glow", which is a positive resistance phenomenon, with voltage drop preferably high enough to break through the lamp once the lamp's filaments are hot and thermionically emitting electrons.

In my experience, a majority of starters lack capacitors.

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I hardly ever hear an ad with honest claims :-( ...Jim Thompson

That would be in large part because when you look closely, few ads make testable claims. There are always weasel words like "may", or the claims are just meaningless anyway.

Sylvia.

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Certainly there are plenty of claims that have one meaning but are clearly intended to be interpreted as meaning something else.

An example I remember noticing from way back was a hair treatement that was "adsorbed" by the hair. That isn't a typo, and how many people would have ever come across the word? How many people would read it, or hear it, as "absorbed"?

Sylvia.

We certainly have a whole class of citizens that are so ignorant they hear what they want to hear. On this side of the pond we call them Democrats ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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That is true. You can actually take the cover off a starter, and watch the process happen inside the little tube in the starter. At power on, it glows inside, generating heat, that makes the bimetallic contacts move together, which them shorts out the starter and stops the glow. this also allows the heaters to energise, until the tube starts and lights. At this point, the current flows through the tube and not the starter so it does nothing further until next switch on.

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Something seems screwy with that explanation. IME (cold) starter is initially closed; power goes through old old style filaments in FL, in fraction of a second bimetallic strip heats up and contacts open, FL starts. Lamp current keeps FL filaments hot, glow current keeps starter contacts warm and open. By experiment over 40 = years ago as a kid.

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Didn't know about all the various metal radioisotopes. I also frequently saw welded construction (a long time ago).

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Well, I could, but that really wasn't the point.

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It cant work as a normally closed (at cold) circuit. If the starter was normally closed initially, then it would keep turning the filaments on as it cooled down and closed again, killing the current through the tube and turning it off.

If it somehow was kept hot enough to stay open when the tube was running, this would be a waste of power, and probably reduce the life of the starter a lot.

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I agree ! I've never seen any with normally closed bi-metal contacts... However I've seen a few that failed with the contacts welded closed !