I am looking for 3 older philips ballasts for a restoration project I am working on right now, a 3-tube shoplight that has seen better days, but is a very rare model. It is not very important what exact type number the ballasts have to me, I just want them to be period correct. (anything from the late 50's and up to the 70's). the fixture originally had 3x 58429AH installed, but to my great surprise, all 3 of them were dead shorted.



So here is the short story if you are interested! So I saved a 3-tube shoplight (sadly missing its reflector, but not a big deal to bend up a new one in my workshop). I initially thought that was the only issue, but when I powered it on, all 3 ballasts were shorted, one was shorted to earth so I disconnected it and carried on testing, and that was when I discovered rather brutally that the two others were acting like pieces of wires and burned up two perfectly fine tubes for me. It gave a pretty horrifying light and sound show when that happen, luckily I only lost 2 fairly well used T8 bulbs I was using for testing, so nothing of real big value was lost in terms of tubes. I installed 3 new Helvar L36A ballasts for the time being, but I would like to have the fixture in as original condition as possible, minus the missing reflector which I will likely never be able to find. but I should be able to make a reflector that looks identical to the original, I found a fixture like mine still in service and was able to take measurements from it. I would love to take that fixture in service  but that won't happen, hehe. But I got a nice fixture body , and nice tube sockets on mine, but all 3 ballasts were dead. I should be able to bend up and make a replica of the reflector for it within a few hours, but sucks to not have the original ballasts in working order. The fixture will work fine and probably outperform it's original self with the Helvar ballasts, however, it would feel much nicer to have the correct ballasts regardless! I also don't know how the newer helvar ballasts will perform with T12 tubes, I don't think there will be any issues whatsoever though.

If you have some older philips ballasts that I could buy, please let me know!