Marquee light replacment

uolarethian

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I have an Ivan Steward's Off Road cabinet and the marquee light is shot. I want to replace it but can't find anything in the manual that tells me the volts or watts of it to replace it. So the question is can I just go the local retail store and buy a new kitchen florescent light fixture.

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Used to be able to find the proper ballast at Lowes, but now you'd probably have to order from Bob R, etc.. I think it's much more trouble to swap in something new, as you have to mount it, hack the original wiring. For any 30yr old game I plan on keeping or am restoring to trade/resell, I replace the bulb, ballast, and starter. You can usually do that for <$10, about same as buying a new fixture, and you keep the game more original.
 
You could, but you may not have to go that route. If you have a meter, measure the resistance between the two wires coming from the ballast. A good meter should read approximately 26 ohms. Anything unstable or significantly different means a bad ballast that will blow your new bulb.

Ballasts (5-15-25W) can still be bought at Home Depot for about $5-6. The starter should be an FS-2, and I think the bulb is the standard 18" F15T8 CW, but I'm not about to go dig through my garage to check. Just pull the old bulb and check the number on the end. Same with the starter and ballast.

If the ballast is good, just get a new starter and bulb and you're done. Even replacing the ballast is easy, and a lot less work then remounting a different fixture and wiring it into power...
 
Voltage checks won't help as all you are checking is to see if you have 120 to the fixture.

You need to shut it off and check the resistance of the ballast. If it is good, get a new bulb and starter. If it is bad, get a new ballast, bulb, and starter...
 
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