Sterling, Go for it. We did it earlier this year. HUGE difference in lighting. Really brightens up the office. There are a couple variations. There are ones when you don't remove the ballast. I wouldn't do that. They have ones that have positive / negative on each tombstone (the center piece for each bulb to connect to) and then they have ones where you wire all the leads of all (both) tombstones on one end to positive and all the leads at the other end to negative (not polarity sensitive). That's what we did.
Here's what we bought (40 bulbs purchased, 1 bad, immediately replaced by the company). They had great tech support. They even sent us a dimmer because the Leviton one on Amazon didn't work. I can inquire with them which dimmer was the one to get. They dim to about 75% without flicker https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SSNPI80/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SFD1AEY/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Paul -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 1:31 PM To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] OT Office Lighting Change to LED 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?
