youll feel like youre living in a black and white movie for a while if you dont get the right bulbs. the boss changed his office out, just a ballast and bulb swap, it took about 6 months to get used to, the lack of expected shadows is unnerving
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Robert Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone documented LED interference? That's what I thought this > thread was going to be about when I saw the subject... > > On 10/11/2016 11:40 AM, George Skorup wrote: > >> Any time we have a fluorescent ballast die, we just replace with LEDs. >> Rip the ballast out and wire it 110 hot. We get 4 foot T8 size internal >> transformer 120v bulbs for like $10 each, shipped. They pull about 15 >> watts and put out 30, 35 or 40W "equivalent". I forget exactly how much. >> All I know is, if you have two 35 or 40W bulbs in a fixture now, a >> single LED will be damn near the same amount of light (or at least >> appear to be). We're remodeling half of the building and all of those 4 >> bulb 4' fixtures will get converted to 110 and get two LEDs. 50-60% >> reduced power consumption for lighting isn't bad at all. And all of our >> generator backed lighting is LED, so the less load on the generator the >> better. >> >> On 10/11/2016 1:06 PM, Sterling Jacobson wrote: >> >>> >>> Looks like I need to check the direct replacement bulbs from Philips >>> with my system to see if they are compatible. >>> >>> If they are, that would be less than $500 shipped to replace all of >>> them if I do it myself. >>> >>> That would probably end up being well under a 1 year ROI in that case. >>> >>> *From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Josh Reynolds >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 11, 2016 11:39 AM >>> *To:* [email protected] >>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Office Lighting Change to LED >>> >>> Based on the numbers you gave, you'd end up saving around $14 a year >>> in power. The installation and equipment could run between >>> $3500-$4200, roughly. >>> >>> On Oct 11, 2016 12:30 PM, "Sterling Jacobson" <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Anyone ever replaced their standard fluorescence ceiling lights >>> with LEDs? >>> >>> I haven't researched it much yet, but someone told me you can't >>> just use a drop in long bulb replacement. >>> You have to change out the center piece, forgot what that's called. >>> >>> Is that correct? >>> >>> Is this something I can do myself? Or do I need to hire a company? >>> >>> My system has about 24 bays with three bulbs each drawing about >>> 1500W when they are all working. >>> >>> Do I save much by going LED on these? What's ROI? >>> >>> >> -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
