Worked great for me. Like others have commented, probably should put wire nuts on the ends of the two leftover wires to prevent shorting out to the metal of the lamp.
HELLO great video i removed my ballast but I have a old 96 INCH FLOURESCENT tube with one terminal at each end..I only have ONE BULB 8 foot in the fixture..do all LED have two prongs? Do i need new 2 prong horseshoes as my horse shows only have one pin on each end..my ballast had one white, one black,(ON ONE END OF BALLAST) and one blue wire at other end ballast..please advise..thanks
What if the fixture also has a an emergency battery pack installed along with the normal ballast? What is the wiring config if we want to remove the ballast but keep utilizing the battery pack?
First off, I'm not an electrician, & know very little about wiring stuff. Would you please explain where to hook up the ground on this light fixture? Thanks
Thank you for this video. The presentation is great, the explanation is well paced/concise and the videos illustrating your work made it all very easy to understand/follow. If you have basic electric knowledge, this video is a homerun. Thank you!
So, at the "fixed end" (that end with non spring-loaded tombstones) you have non-shunted tombstones...and at the other end (that end with spring-loaded tombstones) you have shunted (joined) tombstones. Am I correct? The kits I see today (eg. Jesled) offer 8' FA8 single pin double-ended LED replacements with non-shunted tombstones supplied for both ends. I was just hoping you might have some insight concerning this. Thank-you.
You never show the removal of either wire at each end. So you don't know what's going on there. You never even show the colored wires....id you take them out? where were they
I ordered T8's at a trade show. For months, I got constant phone calls from the ELS sales team, trying to sell me more. Getting rid of the ELS sales force was like trying to get rid of herpes. I started off answering the calls and explaining that I had not had time to clear the floor of my building and rent the man lift required to replace my current bulbs. The calls persisted. Think of 'your car's warranty' type calls. I stopped answering. So then the salesman decided that if I don't have time or inclination to answer his calls, he would come by my place. Ugg. I crawled out of a piece of heavy equipment I was repairing and explained to him (again) the situation of not having time to clear the floor and put up the new bulbs. I even pointed out the new, unopened box of ELS bulbs next to the door where they had sat for months. When comparing the box to my existing fixtures, he realized that I had the wrong bulbs! Thank goodness I didn't do all that work only to find it out myself. So he ordered the right ones. And they were actually cheaper than the wrong bulbs- good news! So he ordered a few more to make up the difference in what I originally paid for. Better news! Then the calls started coming from the ELS office in Wichita, Kansas. YOU OWE US MONEY! I called back and left a clear, concise, profanity laced message explaining the situation. The sales manager called me back and told me sorry, they were wrong, he had had nothing but troubles with the new office manager and all would be taken care of. Wonderful. Don't call me again. I'll call you if I ever want more of your bulbs. But I wont. Flash forward a couple months and, surprise- my account is in arrears. I am sent a notice of over due bill for the charges that were wrong in the first place. I left another, less clear, less concise and even more profanity strewn message for them late last night. Fortunately, I still haven't taken the time to put up the ELS bulbs. I want to return them and never have anything to do with this company ever again. My experience with this company has been very negative, to say the least.
I ordered T8's at a trade show. For months, I got constant phone calls from the ELS sales team, trying to sell me more. Getting rid of the ELS sales force was like trying to get rid of herpes. I started off answering the calls and explaining that I had not had time to clear the floor of my building and rent the man lift required to replace my current bulbs. The calls persisted. Think of 'your car's warranty' type calls. I stopped answering. So then the salesman decided that if I don't have time or inclination to answer his calls, he would come by my place. Ugg. I crawled out of a piece of heavy equipment I was repairing and explained to him (again) the situation of not having time to clear the floor and put up the new bulbs. I even pointed out the new, unopened box of ELS bulbs next to the door where they had sat for months. When comparing the box to my existing fixtures, he realized that I had the wrong bulbs! Thank goodness I didn't do all that work only to find it out myself. So he ordered the right ones. And they were actually cheaper than the wrong bulbs- good news! So he ordered a few more to make up the difference in what I originally paid for. Better news! Then the calls started coming from the ELS office in Wichita, Kansas. YOU OWE US MONEY! I called back and left a clear, concise, profanity laced message explaining the situation. The sales manager called me back and told me sorry, they were wrong, he had had nothing but troubles with the new office manager and all would be taken care of. Wonderful. Don't call me again. I'll call you if I ever want more of your bulbs. But I wont. Flash forward a couple months and, surprise- my account is in arrears. I am sent a notice of over due bill for the charges that were wrong in the first place. I left another, less clear, less concise and even more profanity strewn message for them late last night. Fortunately, I still haven't taken the time to put up the ELS bulbs. I want to return them and never have anything to do with this company ever again. My experience with this company has been very negative, to say the least.
Thats awful that this happened to you but I would really like to see a response from the company as to why this happened. When companies ignore customer complaints like this, it seriously throws up red flags.
I ordered T8's at a trade show. For months, I got constant phone calls from the ELS sales team, trying to sell me more. Getting rid of the ELS sales force was like trying to get rid of herpes. I started off answering the calls and explaining that I had not had time to clear the floor of my building and rent the man lift required to replace my current bulbs. The calls persisted. Think of 'your car's warranty' type calls. I stopped answering. So then the salesman decided that if I don't have time or inclination to answer his calls, he would come by my place. Ugg. I crawled out of a piece of heavy equipment I was repairing and explained to him (again) the situation of not having time to clear the floor and put up the new bulbs. I even pointed out the new, unopened box of ELS bulbs next to the door where they had sat for months. When comparing the box to my existing fixtures, he realized that I had the wrong bulbs! Thank goodness I didn't do all that work only to find it out myself. So he ordered the right ones. And they were actually cheaper than the wrong bulbs- good news! So he ordered a few more to make up the difference in what I originally paid for. Better news! Then the calls started coming from the ELS office in Wichita, Kansas. YOU OWE US MONEY! I called back and left a clear, concise, profanity laced message explaining the situation. The sales manager called me back and told me sorry, they were wrong, he had had nothing but troubles with the new office manager and all would be taken care of. Wonderful. Don't call me again. I'll call you if I ever want more of your bulbs. But I wont. Flash forward a couple months and, surprise- my account is in arrears. I am sent a notice of over due bill for the charges that were wrong in the first place. I left another, less clear, less concise and even more profanity strewn message for them late last night. Fortunately, I still haven't taken the time to put up the ELS bulbs. I want to return them and never have anything to do with this company ever again. My experience with this company has been very negative, to say the least.
I ordered T8's at a trade show. For months, I got constant phone calls from the ELS sales team, trying to sell me more. Getting rid of the ELS sales force was like trying to get rid of herpes. I started off answering the calls and explaining that I had not had time to clear the floor of my building and rent the man lift required to replace my current bulbs. The calls persisted. Think of 'your car's warranty' type calls. I stopped answering. So then the salesman decided that if I don't have time or inclination to answer his calls, he would come by my place. Ugg. I crawled out of a piece of heavy equipment I was repairing and explained to him (again) the situation of not having time to clear the floor and put up the new bulbs. I even pointed out the new, unopened box of ELS bulbs next to the door where they had sat for months. When comparing the box to my existing fixtures, he realized that I had the wrong bulbs! Thank goodness I didn't do all that work only to find it out myself. So he ordered the right ones. And they were actually cheaper than the wrong bulbs- good news! So he ordered a few more to make up the difference in what I originally paid for. Better news! Then the calls started coming from the ELS office in Wichita, Kansas. YOU OWE US MONEY! I called back and left a clear, concise, profanity laced message explaining the situation. The sales manager called me back and told me sorry, they were wrong, he had had nothing but troubles with the new office manager and all would be taken care of. Wonderful. Don't call me again. I'll call you if I ever want more of your bulbs. But I wont. Flash forward a couple months and, surprise- my account is in arrears. I am sent a notice of over due bill for the charges that were wrong in the first place. I left another, less clear, less concise and even more profanity strewn message for them late last night. Fortunately, I still haven't taken the time to put up the ELS bulbs. I want to return them and never have anything to do with this company ever again. My experience with this company has been very negative, to say the least.
I ordered T8's at a trade show. For months, I got constant phone calls from the ELS sales team, trying to sell me more. Getting rid of the ELS sales force was like trying to get rid of herpes. I started off answering the calls and explaining that I had not had time to clear the floor of my building and rent the man lift required to replace my current bulbs. The calls persisted. Think of 'your car's warranty' type calls. I stopped answering. So then the salesman decided that if I don't have time or inclination to answer his calls, he would come by my place. Ugg. I crawled out of a piece of heavy equipment I was repairing and explained to him (again) the situation of not having time to clear the floor and put up the new bulbs. I even pointed out the new, unopened box of ELS bulbs next to the door where they had sat for months. When comparing the box to my existing fixtures, he realized that I had the wrong bulbs! Thank goodness I didn't do all that work only to find it out myself. So he ordered the right ones. And they were actually cheaper than the wrong bulbs- good news! So he ordered a few more to make up the difference in what I originally paid for. Better news! Then the calls started coming from the ELS office in Wichita, Kansas. YOU OWE US MONEY! I called back and left a clear, concise, profanity laced message explaining the situation. The sales manager called me back and told me sorry, they were wrong, he had had nothing but troubles with the new office manager and all would be taken care of. Wonderful. Don't call me again. I'll call you if I ever want more of your bulbs. But I wont. Flash forward a couple months and, surprise- my account is in arrears. I am sent a notice of over due bill for the charges that were wrong in the first place. I left another, less clear, less concise and even more profanity strewn message for them late last night. Fortunately, I still haven't taken the time to put up the ELS bulbs. I want to return them and never have anything to do with this company ever again. My experience with this company has been very negative, to say the least.
I ordered T8's at a trade show. For months, I got constant phone calls from the ELS sales team, trying to sell me more. Getting rid of the ELS sales force was like trying to get rid of herpes. I started off answering the calls and explaining that I had not had time to clear the floor of my building and rent the man lift required to replace my current bulbs. The calls persisted. Think of 'your car's warranty' type calls. I stopped answering. So then the salesman decided that if I don't have time or inclination to answer his calls, he would come by my place. Ugg. I crawled out of a piece of heavy equipment I was repairing and explained to him (again) the situation of not having time to clear the floor and put up the new bulbs. I even pointed out the new, unopened box of ELS bulbs next to the door where they had sat for months. When comparing the box to my existing fixtures, he realized that I had the wrong bulbs! Thank goodness I didn't do all that work only to find it out myself. So he ordered the right ones. And they were actually cheaper than the wrong bulbs- good news! So he ordered a few more to make up the difference in what I originally paid for. Better news! Then the calls started coming from the ELS office in Wichita, Kansas. YOU OWE US MONEY! I called back and left a clear, concise, profanity laced message explaining the situation. The sales manager called me back and told me sorry, they were wrong, he had had nothing but troubles with the new office manager and all would be taken care of. Wonderful. Don't call me again. I'll call you if I ever want more of your bulbs. But I wont. Flash forward a couple months and, surprise- my account is in arrears. I am sent a notice of over due bill for the charges that were wrong in the first place. I left another, less clear, less concise and even more profanity strewn message for them late last night. Fortunately, I still haven't taken the time to put up the ELS bulbs. I want to return them and never have anything to do with this company ever again. My experience with this company has been very negative, to say the least.
I ordered T8's at a trade show. For months, I got constant phone calls from the ELS sales team, trying to sell me more. Getting rid of the ELS sales force was like trying to get rid of herpes. I started off answering the calls and explaining that I had not had time to clear the floor of my building and rent the man lift required to replace my current bulbs. The calls persisted. Think of 'your car's warranty' type calls. I stopped answering. So then the salesman decided that if I don't have time or inclination to answer his calls, he would come by my place. Ugg. I crawled out of a piece of heavy equipment I was repairing and explained to him (again) the situation of not having time to clear the floor and put up the new bulbs. I even pointed out the new, unopened box of ELS bulbs next to the door where they had sat for months. When comparing the box to my existing fixtures, he realized that I had the wrong bulbs! Thank goodness I didn't do all that work only to find it out myself. So he ordered the right ones. And they were actually cheaper than the wrong bulbs- good news! So he ordered a few more to make up the difference in what I originally paid for. Better news! Then the calls started coming from the ELS office in Wichita, Kansas. YOU OWE US MONEY! I called back and left a clear, concise, profanity laced message explaining the situation. The sales manager called me back and told me sorry, they were wrong, he had had nothing but troubles with the new office manager and all would be taken care of. Wonderful. Don't call me again. I'll call you if I ever want more of your bulbs. But I wont. Flash forward a couple months and, surprise- my account is in arrears. I am sent a notice of over due bill for the charges that were wrong in the first place. I left another, less clear, less concise and even more profanity strewn message for them late last night. Fortunately, I still haven't taken the time to put up the ELS bulbs. I want to return them and never have anything to do with this company ever again. My experience with this company has been very negative, to say the least.
I ordered T8's at a trade show. For months, I got constant phone calls from the ELS sales team, trying to sell me more. Getting rid of the ELS sales force was like trying to get rid of herpes. I started off answering the calls and explaining that I had not had time to clear the floor of my building and rent the man lift required to replace my current bulbs. The calls persisted. Think of 'your car's warranty' type calls. I stopped answering. So then the salesman decided that if I don't have time or inclination to answer his calls, he would come by my place. Ugg. I crawled out of a piece of heavy equipment I was repairing and explained to him (again) the situation of not having time to clear the floor and put up the new bulbs. I even pointed out the new, unopened box of ELS bulbs next to the door where they had sat for months. When comparing the box to my existing fixtures, he realized that I had the wrong bulbs! Thank goodness I didn't do all that work only to find it out myself. So he ordered the right ones. And they were actually cheaper than the wrong bulbs- good news! So he ordered a few more to make up the difference in what I originally paid for. Better news! Then the calls started coming from the ELS office in Wichita, Kansas. YOU OWE US MONEY! I called back and left a clear, concise, profanity laced message explaining the situation. The sales manager called me back and told me sorry, they were wrong, he had had nothing but troubles with the new office manager and all would be taken care of. Wonderful. Don't call me again. I'll call you if I ever want more of your bulbs. But I wont. Flash forward a couple months and, surprise- my account is in arrears. I am sent a notice of over due bill for the charges that were wrong in the first place. I left another, less clear, less concise and even more profanity strewn message for them late last night. Fortunately, I still haven't taken the time to put up the ELS bulbs. I want to return them and never have anything to do with this company ever again. My experience with this company has been very negative, to say the least.
I ordered T8's at a trade show. For months, I got constant phone calls from the ELS sales team, trying to sell me more. Getting rid of the ELS sales force was like trying to get rid of herpes. I started off answering the calls and explaining that I had not had time to clear the floor of my building and rent the man lift required to replace my current bulbs. The calls persisted. Think of 'your car's warranty' type calls. I stopped answering. So then the salesman decided that if I don't have time or inclination to answer his calls, he would come by my place. Ugg. I crawled out of a piece of heavy equipment I was repairing and explained to him (again) the situation of not having time to clear the floor and put up the new bulbs. I even pointed out the new, unopened box of ELS bulbs next to the door where they had sat for months. When comparing the box to my existing fixtures, he realized that I had the wrong bulbs! Thank goodness I didn't do all that work only to find it out myself. So he ordered the right ones. And they were actually cheaper than the wrong bulbs- good news! So he ordered a few more to make up the difference in what I originally paid for. Better news! Then the calls started coming from the ELS office in Wichita, Kansas. YOU OWE US MONEY! I called back and left a clear, concise, profanity laced message explaining the situation. The sales manager called me back and told me sorry, they were wrong, he had had nothing but troubles with the new office manager and all would be taken care of. Wonderful. Don't call me again. I'll call you if I ever want more of your bulbs. But I wont. Flash forward a couple months and, surprise- my account is in arrears. I am sent a notice of over due bill for the charges that were wrong in the first place. I left another, less clear, less concise and even more profanity strewn message for them late last night. Fortunately, I still haven't taken the time to put up the ELS bulbs. I want to return them and never have anything to do with this company ever again. My experience with this company has been very negative, to say the least.
"Drawing watts" "diffuser" this guy needs to call an electrician n not worry about the viewers lol. Watts is a measurement of output. Watts÷voltage gives u ur amperage. Oh yea the "diffuser" is commonly called a "reflector". Nice job tho lol
Simple, quick, to the point explanation. The best explanation I found to do this. Now I need to do this to lights that are connected. Thank you sir for this excellent video!
What needs to be done with the leftover black and white wires? Should they be capped? Excellent video. I've struggled to find info on bypassing this particular wiring style!
I just place new leds T8/T12 tubes in today. They replaced the older fluorescent tubes. I flicked the switch and they worked fine. Should I be worried?
Most likely you bought "type A" replacement led bulbs, which are designed to work with existing ballast. Type B led bulbs are for bypassing/removing the old ballast and are powered directly by the 110v line voltage. Type B are supposed to be more efficient because ballasts consume some energy to convert the voltage. Sorry for the 2 year late reply.
Yes. I have 8 in my garage. Mine are multi volt and i had to set them up for 120v they were set for 477v. Its just connect the wire with the metal 120 tag on it.
I installed one of these to replace a compressed mercury dusk to dawn , 250 watt , removed the starter, light works but no dusk to dawn option anymore!
Should work. I just did 2 of mine on similar lights with the puck style photo electric sensor on top. Check wires. Your sensor maybe gone. The ones I had on wouldn't shut off before the retrofit so I put new sensors. Works perfect.
