Philips Advance ICN-2P32-N 32W T8, 120/277V Electronic Fluorescent Ballast, 2 Lamp

If you are using LED bulbs (2), you must get T8 and only T8. T12/T8 won't work in this ballast.I bought this ballast to replace the one in my aquarium light hood. I decided to get LED bulbs for the fish tank. I had an LED and a flourescent tube when I used it for my bearded dragons, so it worked with LEDs, right? I installed two GE Universal Color Select bulbs and they worked great, for a few days. Then one went out. I checked and the bulb was good. The other bulb didn't light in the slot, either.In comes this ballast. I installed it and the bulbs. I turned it on and only one bulb worked. Huh? I figured that maybe the tombstones for that side were bad, so I replaced them. Both bulbs worked for a few days and then the other bulb went out. Then I noticed that it only worked with the bulb that was installed first. I know, weird.I called GE and spoke to a tech. He said they never tested this ballast with their LED bulbs. He looked it up and found the problem. The Universal bulbs are meant for T12/T8 ballasts (they accept both). This ballast only accepts T8 LED bulbs. It doesn't matter with fourescents, you can use either, as I have in the past with the same ballast model. I had to get the GE Replacement LED bulbs because they were strictly for T8 ballasts.I returned the bulbs to Lowes and got the Replacements and they work!

Good cheap ballast for my 4 foot 2 bulb T8 fixture and the LED replacement bulbs that require a fast start ballast.

Man, have Ballasts' increased in price. Bought this one as it was the least expensive I could find, still cheaper than replacing the entire fixture.Took less than 15 minutes to install... these used to be less than $10; but everyhing has gone up in price.Would buy again whenever I need another Ballast.Does the job for me -- running 2 T8 bulbs, 4 foot

Worked perfect for repairing my moms kitchen light when i was on vacation. Seamless install and was a perfect fit

I can't really tell whether this is an authentic Philips product. I can tell that the product listing and the label on the listing photo say "Philips" and "NEMA Premium". The product delivered says neither of those things. The product delivered is not packaged with an instruction sheet — they are normally pretty useless, but seem always to be included with electrical parts to be installed. The pigtail wires are not conventionally marked (i.e. wire type and gauge) — but I'm not certain that is a requirement for preattached and fixed wires.Anyway, it is an electronic ballast of some kind, made by somebody. It seems to be silent. It seems to work — in a 50degF shop directly after installation it took 20 minutes to warm up a pair of 32w T8 fluorescents to something close to normal brightness, but on subsequent days they seem to come on pretty close to full brightness pretty quickly. Hope it keeps working — wiring inside a ceiling fixture is rather a pain for us DIY electricians.

I did a one to one swap. Works fine. Leads are 20 or 22 gauge for reference. I cut the old leads and wirenutted it in.

I replaced 2 old T12 magnetic ballasts w 2 new T8 electronic ballasts. Job went smooth & the end result is bright fluorescent lights. Mag ballasts have 8 wires & the electronic ballasts have 5 wires. 3 pairs of old wires are combined & attached to 3 single wires on the new ballast. Also there have been comments if these are actually Philips brand because the name is missing. In 2018, Philips lighting div changed its name to Signify, thus the name discrepancy.

works fine