Bzzz.. fzzz... Boom!

vampie

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And then, a puff of smoke!

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Sure, bulbs burn out, but this one pretty much blew out of it's casing..
 
I had a screw-in compact fluorescent do something similar, a capacitor blew itself up and cracked the housing wide open. I replaced the capacitor, two years later the ballast is still running an F15T8 over a 10-gallon quarantine tank. Waste not, want not. :)
 
I threw out the packaging long ago, so I don't even know who made it. Besides, it was only like a dollar.

Had fun picking out some of the pieces that fell into the water. /sarcasm
 
Yikes!
 
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