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Question about the "starter" of a fluorescent lamp.

Suppose the following circuit which is a simple fluorescent lamp. It consists of a "starter" connected in series to an inductor and this connected in parallel with the extremities of the lamp and to the voltages of the alternating current generator.

If the "starter" malfunctions, how can one make the fluorescent lamp work without using any tools or changing the "starter" for a new one?

Does it have to do with Faraday's Law of Induction somehow? Is there a trick here?
 
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Je m'appelle said:
Suppose the following circuit which is a simple fluorescent lamp. It consists of a "starter" connected in series to an inductor and this connected in parallel with the extremities of the lamp and to the voltages of the alternating current generator.

If the "starter" malfunctions, how can one make the fluorescent lamp work without using any tools or changing the "starter" for a new one?

Does it have to do with Faraday's Law of Induction somehow? Is there a trick here?

The "starter" may be a very simple component. Can you post a diagram of what you were given? And what is the equation that relates voltage and current in an inductor?
 

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