Actually I paid about $25 for new ballast and I see I could get new 4
bulb t8 fixtures for $39 at lowes. I should have just gone that route.
I will look into LED but do they have 8ft fixtures? Seems they would be
too expensive at this point.
On 1/31/2017 6:37 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote:
Fluorescents suck in the cold . . . will be dim and even flicker sometimes
until they warm up. LEDs are the way to go.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
I have been fighting the 8ft t12 fixtures in the shop. I had a couple of
lights out and replaced bulbs and a ballast in one of them and it was fine.
Lately I have had about 3-4 fixtures out again so I bought a case of bulbs.
These are 8ft with 2 bulbs per fixture. So I swapped bulbs with new ones
and a couple were still dead. So I replaced the old heavy magnetic ballast
with the newer electronic ballast and after much hassle the 2 are working
but with new ballast and bulbs they flicker badly, would probably cause a
seizure. So, what to check next? One thing I did find odd was I unhooked
the wires running to 1 end of one fixture and it shut off the other fixture
I was working on. They are on the same circuit but not wired in series or
anything as fast as I can tell.
On another note on the other side of the shop I have 2-3 8ft t8 fixtures
that have 4 4ft bulbs in them and those seem to be way way brighter than
the others
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