Fluorescent lights

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This is a picture of our kitchen lights, which are fluorescent ones. *grin* And the reason I took this particular photograph, you ask? I have the answer. Because I wanted to show you that both of the current light bulbs are working, and also what I installed a new "ballast" in. The ballast is what makes the power to the fixture work. We didn't think one of the two ballasts were working because BOTH of the light bulbs were flickering and only partially lit. After the installation, we flipped the switch to on, but nothing had changed. Went to the shed to get what I hoped we had, a replacement bulb, put it in, and VOILA! Both bulbs came on. Could've saved ourselves $32 had we just tried replacing the bulb first, but we didn't even think about doing that since BOTH bulbs were flickering. We had a ballast go out before, like 6 years ago and we thought the other MUST be bad... we were wrong, but since the new one is already installed we can't take it back for a refund. Hope this saves YOU some money as well. *embarrassed sigh*