achieverelectro
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- 1000' above sea level
I'd suspect a brown-out of their incoming voltage. In my experience, any greater than 10% below 115-125vac supply will cause flourescent lights to act precisely as though their ballasts are going t!ts up. Same with HPS/MH floods. I saved AT&T a fair amount of ducats by succesfully arguing this point with one of the engineers on the CS Long Lines on a hot summer day in Baltimore several years ago.
I'd also point out to the resort's engineer that CFLs, especially in high humidity/moisture areas, have a nasty little habit of failing by shorting, as opposed to simply burning out "open". And this means the entire leg goes dark...many-many quality hours flat on my back on a steel cart in a ship's pipe tunnels taught me THAT feature.