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I don't think I've ever seen a PL lamp with an electronic starter. I suppose it would still be considered preheat. As far as I know, the electronic starter operates in the circuit just like a regular glow starter would, but they are designed to close and open at just the right time so the lamps starts on the first attempt. They're not nearly as fun to watch as the old fashioned type, of course .

DieselNut: Starters of any type can't rapidstart the lamp, hence rapidstart magnetic ballast can be operating without a starter at all. Fluorescent starters of all types, electronic or mechanic, are here to preheat the lamp electrodes. and so their operation is always "preheat start" regardles of the ignition speed.
pjc: Electronic starters for fluorescent indeed operate in the same circuit like glow starters. However like these for HID, its operation priciple are much different. They are not contain any moving parts but a capacitor and other electronic components to provide the preheating and the pulses. Altough the ignition still make a clicking noise like with glow starters. Of example of behavior of electronic starters, the electronic starters inside the "Electronic Start" preheat ballasts from Shaingot factory in Israel operate thus: One pulse (Which is always fails but usually not visible to the naked eye), then the electrodes preheating to its maximum temperature its can, then another pulse that lit the lamp. If the ignition process failed, the starter stops and waits for about ~5 second and start the whole ignition process from the begining. In case of 50hz flickering lamps (EOL or rectification), the starter waits for several seconds while the lamp 50hz flickers until it will stop with this and if this is not happens until the waiting duration is over, the starter starts the whole ignition process from the begining.

I will post pictures of the lamp. It starts between the speed of instant start and rapid start, but does not appear to "pre-heat" the filaments at all. I had another one like it several years ago that got broken. I opened up the cavity where the glowbottle starter would be and it had a little circuit board in there instead. The lamps (or similar ones anyway) are still available. Enertron calls them "Instant start" and they are interchangeable with the standard 2 pin preheat lamps in their magnetic preheat fixtures.

I have a similar one i will post pictures of one day (when i get the photo editor fixed) and mine fries the preheat ones very quickly, since the starter makes the electrodes heat up way too much. I think the starter would also fry the ballast electronic part eventually.

@dor123: You are not right. It really depend on the starter behavior:
- If it first only heat electrodes without generating high voltage and after generate high starting voltage without further heating, it is "preheat". So as first HV kick does not have to be successful and in mean time electrode cool down, the "preheating" has to repeat, hence the blinking on start.
- If it heat up and at the SAME TIME generate limited high voltage, both instantly just after power ON, it is "rapid start". HV pulses are not enough to start cold electrodes, but just enough to start hot ones, so the heating time before actual ignition is controlled solely by the lamp.
- If it first preheat electrodes like the "preheat", but then continue to heat them during ignition attempts, it is "programmed start".

All three methods are possible to implement into the "electronic starter" working in "preheat circuit".

The fourth method - "Instant start" need high energetic HV, what is the only method the preheat circuit might not be capable in all ballast implementation (lead, lag, resistive,...), so no "instant start starter retrofits" were ever offered, however it is possible on low wattage (argon) lamps at high OCV ballasts (e.g. F8T5 on series choke at 230V in proximity of grounded metal start instantly even without the starter).