[Shop-talk] led light swap out question

[Jimmie Mayfield]

Honestly, unless you think you'll fall back to using fluorescent tubes 
in the future, I'd remove those ballasts and just use LED tubes designed 
to be powered directly from 120V line.  There's no need for a 
fluorescent ballast so it's just wasting electricity.

The downside is you'll need to remove your ballasts and rewire your 
fixtures.  The tubes will have instructions for how to rewire your 
fixtures.  Do make sure you put a clear warning label inside the fixture 
if you do this so that someone doesn't unwittingly try to plug in a 
fluorescent tube later.


On 08/20/2018 02:23 PM, john niolon wrote:
> I’ve changed all my 4’ t-8 fluorescent bulbs with LED tubes (with 
> ballasts).  Much better light output and I’m very pleased.  I still 
> have a couple of 4’ t-12s  fixtures and I’m
> wondering if I can just swap out the tubes... I think the  end 
> connectors are the same for t-8 and t-12... will the t-12 ballast 
> cause a problem ???
> thanks
> John
>
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