Happy to help, SOG. I'm glad that you looked at it and found the international stuff - it completely blew past me when Slim said he needed 220v transformers. I thought that he was trying to figure out a way to get to 277 volts with a transformer, not realizing that he meant ballasts!
The nice part about the AH kit is the Miro reflector - it's easy to incorporate into lots of different designs. You can damn near shave with the edges and the corners are potentially lethal, so I've started knocking the edges off with a sharpening stone and rounding the corners with tin snips. The socket/cord assembly is nearly water tight (after all, aquariums are their target market) and very high quality. So far I've used about 14 of the kits, in everything from a 6x55 PL-L fixture to 4x55 in my hybrid LED fixture. They work well in mom cabinet's, too.
The owner of AH is great to work with. For my hybrid fixture, I needed stationary mount sockets and when I called him to see if he knew of a good source for them, he express mailed some to me for free. He is also a good source of information on ballast factors and damn near anything else that you could want to know about PL-Ls.
The nice part about the AH kit is the Miro reflector - it's easy to incorporate into lots of different designs. You can damn near shave with the edges and the corners are potentially lethal, so I've started knocking the edges off with a sharpening stone and rounding the corners with tin snips. The socket/cord assembly is nearly water tight (after all, aquariums are their target market) and very high quality. So far I've used about 14 of the kits, in everything from a 6x55 PL-L fixture to 4x55 in my hybrid LED fixture. They work well in mom cabinet's, too.
The owner of AH is great to work with. For my hybrid fixture, I needed stationary mount sockets and when I called him to see if he knew of a good source for them, he express mailed some to me for free. He is also a good source of information on ballast factors and damn near anything else that you could want to know about PL-Ls.