@Powel: HF ballast should be mounted as close as possible to the lamp with as short HF wires as possible and run all that wiring parallel and as closest to the lamp. Good quality ballasts have marked the "hot side" output terminals, what should be really made short - the ballast should be placed closer to that end of the tube. So always cut the wires to just fit (with the required manipulation margin, but leave nothing more). Very frequent mistakes are jamming the excess wires into chunks and keep that in the fixture. Such chunk then act as "excellent" disturbance coupler to the external world, same as ballast placed to the ceiling and lamp hanged few feets below - this create "nice" loop antenna to radiate all the lamp current...
What I see, very huge amount of electricians ignore the fact, then HF ballast is a high frequency device and ignore all rules in routing high frequency circuits (the related ones usually printed in the ballast installation manuals/documentation). I think here is very large gap in their training, causing severe interference problems with incorrectly made installations.
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