Hey all.

Haven't been on in a while. I've been travelling on business...and as usual my tanks wait till I'm out of town to pull their Murphy's Law crap.

Under the hood of my 55 I have a pair of 65w compact flourescents. (probably spelled wrong)

My wife called me & said the tank looked darker than usual. She identified my compacts as the ones not working.

When I got home, I disassembled the whole thing and found this...


Here's what an unmelted one looks like...


The red wires come from the ballast and the black one goes to the socket. The writing on the fuse says....

<PS> E JET
20A 300V
1.2 1.6 2.0 0 CU
(some symbols) OK-3

So my questions are...

1) Is this just some type of some connector - or is it an inline fuse?
2) If it's a fuse, any ideas where to get one?
3) If I can't find an exact match, then is there a safe alternative to get
this fixture working again?

Thanks!


Oh...the good news is that Haley & Chris set me up with a new T5 & I love it! Intially it had a white bulb and one of those pink plant bulbs. That made the whole tank look pink, so I swapped out the pink for one of those lunar blue ascetane (also probably spelled wrong).

It looks great!