American Fluoresecent offers the widest selection of ballasts for surface task, utility and commercial fixtures. Any fixture you order from this catalog will be shipped with a common ballast, unless a ballast upgrade is designated by adding one of the following suffixes to the model number. For example: RC240E8 - here RC240 is the model number and E8 is the ballast type. The following chart depicts the ballast and lamp options available in a two-lamp, four-foot fixture and the resulting delivered lumens for the various combinations.

Ballast Type:	R8
Description:	Residential electronic- Normal Power Factor
Lamp Watts:	32
Lamp Size:	T8
Lamp Description:	F32T8/TL471
Life Hours:	20000
Approx Input Watts:	56
Initial Delivered Lumens:	5016
Ballast Type:	E8
Description:	Electronic Octron (commercial use) fully electronic ballast
Lamp Watts:	32
Lamp Size:	T8
Lamp Description:	F32T8/TL741
Life Hours:	20000
Approx Input Watts:	58
Initial Delivered Lumens:	5192