# Just a heads up

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**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [April 1, 2009, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-a-heads-up/202399 "2009-04-01T13:00:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/just-a-heads-up/202399/7 "2009-04-02T20:20:38Z")

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> [@Talk about a bad bounce...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/talk-about-a-bad-bounce/40005/4):
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> not sure, came from Wal\*mart. I think it was Sylvania, but not 100%.
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> Thanks for the heads up, but there is no ballast to check in a compact florescent,  
> as the ballast is part of the light that screws into the socket.
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> And not to be a dick or anything, I really wasn’t looking for advice, I was just trying to help someone else prevent their home from burning down. Thanks.

I missed the compact part in the original post. Sorry about that.

If it was a regular fluorecent blub it wasn’t advise, it was a fact so people didn’t think “x brand” blubs were the problem when they probably have a faulty ballast. Then they burn their house down after they switch brands thinking it was the bulb.

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