For any North American member interested in learning to access split phase 240V 60Hz supplies at home for 220-240V lamps and lighting equipment, I highly recommend watching the following tutorial:

https://youtu.be/LZbIJZe_YDs?si=VcmpPjJPvecfegTA

This tutorial can be helpful for running lamps and lighting equipment from many countries safely in North America.

However, when it comes to magnetic fluorescent and HID ballasts rated for 50Hz power grids, you would need to replace the capacitor if the ballast uses one in series with the lamp, but otherwise purely inductive magnetic ballasts for 230V 50Hz and 240V 50Hz operation would be somewhat underdriven while 220V 50Hz purely inductive magnetic ballasts should run at full power. As a good safety measure, I recommend using a power strip on each out of phase outlet to ensure that you can turn off the power when you are unplugging or plugging the lamp or fixture into your 240V 60Hz supply. Additionally, I am also aware that you should avoid using GFCI outlets when searching for out of phase outlets.

Feel free to correct me on anything I said incorrectly.

I really hope this doesn't end up being the case. That would be incredibly depressing. I've stocked up really good in terms of fluorescent lighting and
certain fixtures, but when it comes time to move on towards a larger home, and when it comes time to purchase lighting that I prefer even more than the
lighting that I've got now, just knowing that it could be impossible to obtain it, would be very depressing.
I think it's wrong of them to dictate what kind of lighting you can buy or sell... I understand that the majority of the common people favor LED's,
but that should never mean that LED's be forced upon those who don't want to buy them.
My next (and original) concern after that, of course, would be a law banning the use of lighting that is not LED. 

I do wonder... wouldn't Ebay see some sort of backlash from both buyers and sellers, if they banned the selling of lighting products that aren't LED?
I'm willing to bet... HUGE backlash.

eBay could care less about the small sellers, and generic low-profit old stuff like fluorescent lighting.

I honestly doubt there would even be much of a backlash...sure a few sellers & buyers would complain, but fact is these days, most of the 'general population' doesn't want anything to do with fluorescent lighting.

If whats said here is true, eBay could be doing it because some places (Colorado for example) have banned the sale/import/manufacture/etc of basically anything fluorescent...and you could pretty much get around it buying on there.

@Emersyn,... not sure what's going on there. What kind of electronic ballast is used in that fixture? All four ends are heavily blackened, which leads me to
believe it may be a ballast (or ballasts) issue... maybe.
That fixture could be operating much, much better than that.
Also, does that fixture encounter any sort of... frequent switching...? Just wondering.

To anyone reading this, I forgot to mention: ballast EOL's or the EOL's of anything that aids the ballasts in any way, counts as well.
... and you guys may know this already, but: this is not at all limited to just Fluorescent. ... just thought I'd throw that out there.

Not really today, but I have a Sylvania lamp that is just so close to EOL but it somehow still works without actively burning out (on an electronic ballast!) https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=14865&pos=1&pid=266964

@rapidstart_12, very, very epic score on those 446-LR-TC-P Universal ballasts in those fixtures. Therm-O-Matic? Therm-O-Matic X??
Those are some of the best HPF Magnetic Rapid Start ballasts one could possibly purchase. Lights up lamps very nicely.
Also, I HIGHLY agree with you that finding matching vintage fixtures is difficult, due to my search of all 11 of my living room fixtures
almost a year ago. My fixtures in my upstairs loft use to be LED ready fixtures, before I converted them to magnetic Rapid Start/T12.
Anyways, keep at it with the set up @rapidstart_12,... post that final set up pic when you get the chance.
We're keeping it 446-LR-TC-P over here as well... for my lighting wise event of the day, I just bought a Therm-O-Matic HPF Rapid Start ballast
from Ebay. This ballast will replace the ballast inside of the middle fixture of the five fixtures in my upstairs loft. The ballast that I'm
replacing has the same part number, but it is not the Therm-O-Matic version. I don't think it's the ballast... could be the lamp, but: the lamp
facing outward appears to be a tad bit dimmer than the other lamp in series with it, and the other lamps around it. It's really not that noticeable
and I've been debating on replacing that ballast for several months now, but I've finally given in. We will see if that Therm-O-Matic ballast will
change things. Doubtful, but it's worth a try. Also, once I replace this ballast, all five fixtures upstairs would have Therm-O-Matic ballasts in them,
3 of which are Therm-O-Matic X... unlike most of the fixtures downstairs. All the fixtures downstairs, although still 446-LR-TC-P, aren't the
Therm-O-Matic versions.

Ter was also a similar idea from the 20s that used a bright emitter tube as both the tube in a single-tube receiving circuit and the bulb. It was said to give enough light to read by.

... I literally just purchased another Thermo-Matic magnetic HPF R.S ballast from Ebay, just minutes ago. Hopefully this isn't true, since 95%
of my living room lighting gear came from Ebay. Heck, that very rare cold temp HPF Trigger Start F15T12 single lamp strip fixture that I recently
bought, came from Ebay.
I do wonder... wouldn't Ebay see some sort of backlash from both buyers and sellers, if they banned the selling of lighting products that aren't LED?
I'm willing to bet... HUGE backlash.

The more I think about it, the more I think I remember when Mcdonalds had it... like, WAY back in the day. I'm talking mid and late 90's/very early 2000's, when most Mcdonalds were still lit with HPF Rapid Start fluorescent troffers.
But yeah Arby's and Hardees are definitely looking like the main ones that I can remember.

I don’t remember people smoking there specifically, but Arby’s and Hardee’s are the two restaurants I specifically remember having ashtrays on the tables. I think some restaurants must have already banned smoking by then, because I don’t remember McDonalds or Subway having them.