F48PG17 Striplight

I picked up a couple of these 4ft HO single lamp striplights a while back from the Restore in order to have a fixture to run my F48 PG17 power groove lamps in. It even came stock with the taller RDC lampholders that better accommodate the wider PG17 lamps than the standard height ones.

Anyway the light is NOS from 1979 and has a vintage Universal ballast wired for single lamp operation. Interestingly unlike most single lamp HO strips, this one has a single lamp sized channel. Most of single lamp HO strips have a standard two lamp sized channel but with a single set of lampholders instead.

I do have a used F48 PG17 single lamp ballast I could put in this but I kept the light HO mainly since it seems the 4ft PG17 lamps ironically have a high risk of early failure when run on the proper VHO ballast and I've heard good things from the other members here that have ran their lamps on HO.