What's a good source of reasonably-priced well-made ballasts? I assume you are
replacing magnetic ones with electronic ones.
My garage has a couple of fluorescent fixtures that each have two 8-foot
high-output bulbs. There is tons of light, but the cheapo ballasts get pretty
warm. I wonder if it is cheaper to replace just the ballasts, or just get new
fixtures with better ballasts. The fixtures themselves are quite basic, just a
long skinny metal box with a couple of sockets at each end. There is no
reflector, which is OK because the ceiling is bright white.
Doug
--- On Tue, 2/24/09, Randall <tr3driver@ca.rr.com> wrote:
> From: Randall <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Dimmable CFLs at Home Depot
> To: "'Shop Talk List'" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 1:43 PM
> > What do you do with the old ones?
>
> Not sure if I should admit this in public, I've been
> just tossing them in
> the trash.
>
> > Is there any scrap metal or recycle
> > value to them?
>
> Some, probably. But they are potted in a very unpleasant
> tarry substance
> and I doubt there is more than a pound of copper in each
> one (if it's copper
> at all). Most of the weight is probably the iron cores.
>
> The price of scrap copper does appear to be up, it's
> now some $1.60/pound
> ... still not worth it to me to try to salvage the copper
> from them. And if
> I saved them up and sold them as-is to a scrap dealer for
> barely enough to
> cover my cost of transporting them; they would probably set
> fire to the tar,
> which would likely be just as bad as in the landfill.
> That's the usual way
> of recycling copper wire and so on.
>
> Randall
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