Comments on: Hazardous Fluorescent Lamp Ballasts

By: Neeraj

Neeraj — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:47:01 +0000

In my office almost 150 fluorescent lamp ballast got burnt , self wants to know how all of a sudden all the lamp ballast burnt one by one where as we are using the set up for the last 3 years and there was no such incident reported in the past. it seems to be a potential fire hazards? Kindly help me to find out the various causes behind it.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:00:26 +0000

I was at work and all of a sudden there was a lot of smoke coming out of the light fixture above me and an AWFUL smell. We thought there was a fire and the stench was so bad i had to leave. Turns out the ballast burnt out and I would like to know how hazardous that was to my health. Does anyone know??

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:09:18 +0000

I am re-doing the MSDS file and am curious if ballasts info should be in the list.
thank you.

By: bopeep

bopeep — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:59:29 +0000

Electrical current is almost invincible. If the current is inside the case, then the casing material dosn’t matter (think “lightning”). Almost everything burns; if it doesn’t, it melts at a very high temperature and will ignite everything near it.

Electricity in Iraq is 230 Volts, alternating at 50 cycles per second (50 Hertz). It is important that you are provided with fixtures that meet this requirement. That is a likely problem.

By: apollo b. cosio

apollo b. cosio — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:43:10 +0000

I am here in iraq and have our fluorescent lamp replaced due to ballasr overheating and causes fire. The casing are plastics.

If the ballast cannot resist the flow of current , will it burn?