Let me know if you still want it. I made a drive out to Bethesda, MD yesterday (wasn't too bad), but I'd prefer to meet in the middle. I have your email and contact, just haven't been able to get ahold of you.

Yeah I'm not gonna risk it. I will definitely use a perfect sine wave inverter.

OK so the slight underdrive cause by running a 240v ballast at 230v or 220v shouldn't be a problem. But how bad would running a ballast on a modified sine wave be?

It is a gamble. May be marginally OK with lagging type chokes and leak transformers. Long current pause will be bad for some lamps. Results will be unpredictable when used with leading and resonant circuits. Don't dare if you don't have an oscilloscope on hand to verify what's going on.

I was already halfway across crosswalk when they came up and honk though, I too have had vehicle keep driving when I’m already in crosswalk, they won’t even make eye contact, when I see them go by, they’re just looking straight ahead.

I did see sometime back I was going into Goodwill, a man walking across another crosswalk nearby, and I guess a vehicle did not stop for him and he started yelling and cursing them out, using some VERY colorful names.  Though that’s how I feel inside about it too at times! 

People here in US have phone on often too while driving. I even see holding it while driving, even though it is technically illegal to do it. And of course they’re not paying attention.

I won’t even make phone calls on Bluetooth hands free when I’m driving, as I find it too distracting to try to drive and taking and listening at once. I even have trouble talking to others in the car when driving because I usually drive alone.

That said, I was driving home Friday night, and on last road before I turn onto my street, two teen were walking in the road as I came around curve. They saw me coming but still didn’t move out of road, thankfully I was watching carefully. I had to wait for oncoming car to pass so I could go around them in opposite lane, they did not move out of road at all.

Well, you just have to bare with these type of people, I have no clue who has something wrong with their head, standing in the middle of a cross walk. A cross walk is to cross a road with cars stopping to let cross the road, not to stand on a cross walk. Any of these people want to stand on a cross walk, play a video game and do it there.  boils me when these people do that, and that's probably of gaming, when they do stupid things on those games...

In the UK, usually people don't honk but they just won't stop their car when your about to cross. They just think they are alone on the road  . It's best to not cross the crossing when a car pulls up because they might drive you other and/or honk at you...because they're probably on their phones while driving  even though it's their fault, they believe it's your fault, when it's not, it'$ them  . I think they should put some camera's on the crossing, especially in England where they use 5700k streetlights to light the crossing. Just to say, if you see someone on their phone while driving near a pedestrian crossing, just report it somewhere, this might be useless info but most people nowhere days (Especially in UK) have their phone on while driving.

You would use Philips S16 starters and wire up the ballasts like preheat fluorescent ballasts and remove the ignitor from the circuit. There was a member on here who had built an 8 foot 95W energy saver F96T12 HO preheat fluorescent fixture using 100W M90 pulse start metal halide HX ballasts with dead ignitors.

Really? Do I just use the normal ignitor for the tube?

Here we have the crosswalk at the front of store for pedestrians to cross the road, it’s mandatory by law that you have to yield to the pedestrians. I always stop at these, if people are crossing, or about to cross.

But sometimes when I cross them, I have people honk at me or they try to drive around me, or they see me crossing but just keep driving. I don’t understand it, because I walk quite fast.

Just this weekend, I going into Walmart, and I heard a car make two short honks as I’m crossing.


I even while back had someone almost knock me down at the crossing, they turned very tightly into me, and I stumbled and my hand hit the back window of their suv. That made me quite nervous as I was afraid they might get out and try to hurt me, but thankfully nothing happened.

All I can say people are just impatient nowadays and if they’re  in vehicle they think to makes them more important than on foot.

That said, I was driving home Friday night, and on last road before I turn onto my street, two teen were walking in the road as I came around curve. They saw me coming but still didn’t move out of road, thankfully I was watching carefully. I had to wait for oncoming car to pass so I could go around them in opposite lane, they did not move out of road at all.

OK so I definitely will use a perfect sine wave inverter as to not damage a ballast.