Vendo56 squaretop bottle door light help

[SodaShopNick]

Cola62, thanks for you response.  I will get it ordered and see what happens.    Thanks again to all of your for your help. 

[SodaShopNick]

So, installed the new ballast and no luck.  So far I have a new ballast, new starter & new bulb.  With the original starter, original ballast and new bulb I got a bright light right when I pulled it in, but then it went out and no luck since.  I notice the original bulb (F14T12D) and sticker on the light up support state use a daylight bulb only.  The bulb I got is a cool white (F14T12C).  Is there a difference (even though the cool light did come on initially)?   From what I am able to find out it refers to temperature where a cool white is around 4000K and a daylight is about 6000K.   As always thanks for any help. 

[johnieG]

The Cool-white lamp comes with sunglasses & cant be used after memorial day..or something like that..

[cola62]

Daylight, Cool White, Soft White are all just preferences of the glow of the light. Any of these are fine.  You must not be getting power to the ballast if you have replaced everything. I would test the wire to see if it has power to it. You can use a simple light tester if you have one. Test the power source wire coming to the fixture. (Be careful not to let the wires touch each other.) Just touch the tester leads to the hot and neutral wire coming in.  If you have power coming in then it could be your starter holder or the light fixture itself since you have already replaced the ballast and the starter. Be sure all the connections are tight.

[SodaShopNick]

Cola62, thanks for the help.  I will check the lines next.  The fact that the light went on initially tells me it at least had power for a short time.  But, i did have to reconnect everything when I put this all back together and so maybe there is just a loose connection. 

[SodaShopNick]

The saga continues.  I checked power first at the connector to the jones plug (coming from the light up sign) and there is power.  I then checked power at the fluorescent tube holders/clips and I am getting power there.  I guess I could have a bad fluorescent tube as it was new, but was the same bulb that came up when I had the old ballast and then went off.   I will pick up another bulb and try it next.

[SodaShopNick]

Good News....one new ballast, one new starter and TWO new bulbs and I finally see the light!!!!  I guess for some reason when I put the 1st new bulb in with the original starter and ballast it must have took the bulb out due to one or both being bad.   A picture is coming, but thanks to everyone for your help.  I have said it before and I will say it again, there are a lot of reasons I got into this hobby but one reason I stay and that is because of this discussion group. 

[SodaShopNick]

Here is a picture.  It actually has the marque in it, but you cannot read it due to the glare.

[tkaz]

Nice to see it up and lit!  Always kind of frustrating and piss-you-off-funny when it's the least common denominator going bad twice...at least you now know the wiring, ballast and starter are all good and parts you probably should have replaced anyways.

I once spent hours under the dash of my 65 Nova after fixing the dash cluster trying to figure out why it wouldn't start, every damn thing checked out...turns out I didn't shift it back into park after moving the shifter out of the way putting the cluster in!