Okay, so I have a memory that I have thought of on and off for a while, and I just got reminded of it today because I just got a NOS Lights Of America Lifelite "buzz start" shop light (you know, the infamous lamp eaters...) A long time ago (and by this I mean maybe 10 years ago,) I had just gotten my first workshop, which was a small shed; and for the lighting in this shed I had 2 cheap shop lights which were under our house for who knows how long. One of them was a Cooper Lighting 9240 which I still have, and the other one was identical to these LOA fixtures down to the exact same end caps and everything, however it was not branded as such. I am 90% sure this one was branded as "US Fluorescent." The logo was a circle, and it had US fluorescent in the middle of the circle (I think.) It is slightly possible it was actually a lights of america unit, and I somehow misremember the brand, but I knew of LOA at the time, so I don't think so. Anyway, one cold night (it was Halloween, irrelevant but cool I guess) it was mad that i tried to start it in the cold, and the ballast went up in literal smoke. After that I threw it away because I didn't collect lights at the time. I am just trying to find some sort of evidence to prove I am not crazy, I have searched for hours off and on and can not find as much as a reference to that brand at all, much less a shop light which was identical to a lights of america unit. Am I crazy, or does someone out there have one?

The brand is real.  Here is a ballast and another ballast from them.  I can't find a photo of any of their shop lights, however.

WOW! Thanks, yep. That is the logo I remember. Although I didn't know it was a fluorescent tube and a circline lamp, that is cool.

That ballast actually looks identical to one I have with a different brand on it. Caroway I think, though I don't know where it is.

Here's a Carroway ballast that was pulled from a US Fluorescent shoplight.  There's no picture of the shoplight, unfortunately.

Cool, that is very similar to the ones I have if not the same. Though the fixtures I have were (and are, I have 6 fixtures, 3 still run them, the other 3 have electronic ballasts installed)not branded at all from what I can tell.

The light I remember was different anyway, it was almost identical if not identical to the Lights Of America Lifelite fixtures, it had small choke ballasts in the end caps just like that.

I am happy now though, I am just glad to know that my memory (even when I was like 10) wasn't false.

Thanks.

  For what it's worth , we had several of the LOA (LOL) shoplights that SAID "for 2 T12 lamps" . when we got rid of them , I disassembled one and it clearly said inside on the ballast "for 2 T-8 lamps ONLY! "

Did some investigating, and I was able to find this 2000 Menards commercial featuring shoplights from the U.S. Fluorescent brand:

https://youtu.be/qf7VvocecQc?si=4bqBXCsYYyYf2aC-&t=16

It *might* show a LOA-style shoplight in the upper left corner at 0:16, but the quality is just too poor to effectively make things out.



I also found this similar commercial from 2004, which positively shows a LOA-style shoplight at 0:09 and 0:26, but it's under the American Fluorescent brand:

https://youtu.be/2DGHvzbupK8?si=EeDSAOaMz45OIUWH&t=9

 Is it possible that you had the American Fluorescent fixture and misremembered it as being a U.S. Fluorescent?

I guess there is a possibility; though I did remember US fluorescent before ever seeing any evidence of the name, and the logo is exactly how I remember it. The American fluorescent brand is one I was familiar with, and the logo is entirely different.