now the cdc or fda, one of the acronyms are saying LEDs are bad, making us into violent zombies or something of that nature and shutting down our pancreases and melting icebergs so there will be no baby seals left to club
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > I came into this thread late, but I was once told that the replacements > where you remove the ballast and wire line voltage to the ends are 'not > allowed' because they change the UL rating of the Fixture, and therefore > could be pointed to in a fire. I'm not sure if that is actually true or > not. So I guess it depends on if you own your building, or if if you're > leasing/what your local codes say. > > > On 10/11/2016 4:22 PM, Paul McCall wrote: > >> 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_sear >> ch_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 >> >> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SFD1AEY/ref=oh_aui_sear >> ch_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? >> > > -- 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.
