Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 47 minutes ago

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Take a look with me at the way a fluorescent tube reaches end of life running on an electronic ballast.

Presumably this show is created by the high voltage supplied by the ballast when it detects the electrode is broken and starts to run the lamp as it was a Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL), which ironically gets really hot and melts the bases.

This time it was taken to the extreme, to the point the lamp fell off on my hands!