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How to interpret fluor. tube colors? -- Followup

The fluorescent lamp on a Kenmore Model 250 stove (now
20 years old) has started wrecking new fluor. tubes
(Sylvania, 22-inch, 18 watts). Symptoms are:
1. Dark grey bars appear at both ends of the new tube
within 5 min. use.
2. Tube lights only at the two ends (dark in the middle
for 18 inches.) One end shows white light, the other pink light.

What does this mean?

Respondents in alt.home.repair suggest either the starter
(switch?) or the ballast has died (cf. 20 years old.) The stove...

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