I bought 4x2 (4', 2 bulb) replacement LED fixtures on Amazon to swap out some of the fluorescent fixtures in my shop. You can get 3 color temperatures (I got 2700k I think). Hard-wired, but an easy install and the light is very bright. $53/per.
Rich Sent from my iPhone On Mar 6, 2017, at 2:11 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Paul Koning > >>>> terrible fluorescent lighting. > >>> There's another kind? :-) > >> in fact you can get LEDs that fit in fluorescent fixtures, either as is > > I've been looking for LED replacements, but I haven't seen them; I'd have > thought that that would be a pretty popular item, but I haven't seen them in > any local stores. Are they only available as an online option? > >> or (probably a better choice) with the ballast removed. > > Definitely - ballasts are such a pain. Actually, let me be more accurate: the > ballasts in 4' (40W) lights (where they put the two bulbs in series) are a > pain. > > The new ballasts for the 8' lights (a couple of decades back, in the US, > regulations mandated a change) are actually a delight; you have to re-wire old > fixtures a bit to install them (since the new ones no longer run the lights in > series), but the upside is that 8' bulbs now either work - or don't. > > This is distinctly unlike the 4' ones, where bulb X will work when paired with > bulb Y, but not when paired with bulb Z. (Because 40W bulbs are wired in > series pairs, and as they age, their characteristics change.) > > I don't suppose there are ballasts for 40W bulbs that _don't_ wire them in > series? > > Noel
