within trouble light cage 11 and received in a standard screw socket not shown in handle 14 a cord 15 comprising standard 120 volt wiring connects handle 14 with three prong plug 17 a wall plug adaptor 18 fig2 includes a three prong plug 20 a housing 21 a three prong receptacle 23 and a cord 24 comprising standard 120 volt wiring connecting the circuitry within housing 21 to the socket 23 housing 21 contains a ballast for supplying appropriate strike voltages and operating voltages for lamp 25 such ballast may include an electronic ballast or a conventional core and coil transformer and a magnetic ballast which are not shown the circuitry in housing 21 has a normal power factor for providing power to a fluorescent lamp and thus provides 57 volts ac and up to 280 milliamps of current for operating the fluorescent lamp 20 fig2 additionally a current of 520 milliamps will be provided initially by the circuitry in housing 21 to start the fluorescent lamp the circuit components in housing 21 are readily available standard components which are well known in the art and accordingly will not be described in greater detail herein cord 24 is preferably at least six inches long and may advantageously be provided having even larger lengths by providing socket 23 on an end of cord 24 housing 21 does not have an aperture located therein and thus the housing surface does not include apertures for receiving the connectors of plug 17 this allows housing 21 to fully enclose the circuitry located therein in a simple and relatively inexpensive manner and permits wall plug adaptor 18 to be used outdoors further.