From: noone@nospam.com   
      
   One of my clients who is a hairdresser bought one of these cheap chinese   
   sterilizers for sterilizing her scissors etc.which is actually a plastic   
   box with a fluorescent lamp sans phosphor that emits UV light.It goes   
   without saying that the electronic ballast failed after a couple of   
   months and it is minimalistically engineered. So I got a surplus 5 W   
   Ballast (a regular one made of iron and copper) from a friend who has a   
   shop, made all the necessary surgery, installed a starter and voila!I'm   
   still at awe that a PCB with a part count of 20 is cheaper to   
   manufacture than a real ballast and starter!(the lamp is 4W and costs 10   
   euros or something.the ballast plus parts cost 5 euros).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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