I am a retired union electrician of 35 years, and I have to say that for your age, you have a lot of confidence and a great work ethic. You should be proud of yourself.
2nd generation industrial maintenance electrician here, been at it for over 20 years now. Gotta say, I’m impressed by your enthusiasm and dedication. This trade certainly pays well but I’ve always found it to be rather boring and unsatisfying, lol. You have me wanting to make a positive attitude adjustment now… thanks a lot!🙄🤣
I work from a LiFePO4 battery company, the change from fluorescent / HPS to LED is pretty similar to going from old school lead acid batteries to lithium as far as weight, energy density, and longevity.
Even though led is cheaper to run I find that they fail pretty often. The bulbs are fine but all that supporting hardware to turn 120v+ into the 3v dc dies. Since there a sealed package you can’t replace just one part but the entire assembly.
Do yourself a favor and NEVER purchase or use ANY electrical , safety or test equipment from lying cheating lack of caring or quality control POS communist china. Maybe 10!years ago I purchased oaks of LED'S from two different cheating china manufacturers at big box stores. Halve failed within 6 months. 2 within two weeks, several produced Morse code ( short & long flashes ). Purchased Creep LED made IN USA that are made IN USA & come with a 5 year warranty. 5 years later all of them still working. Bad news they were bought out & now made in China. Have to order made in USA LED'S over the Internet but will purchase enough to last me ten years.
yeah, I had to do some serious modifications to the LED lights that I put up from Cree to protect my name (to improve the quality ) they painted over the heat sink where the aluminum LED PCB connects to the heat sink. I had to sand it down and get it all smooth until I saw raw metal and then I covered the back of the aluminum LED PCB with Arctic silver. ( silver -based thermal paste). and some of these LED lights like the one that lady put in. I know there's versions of it that have real heat sinks. but there are some that have fake heat sinks. it's just plastic fins. stupid. plastic is an insulator . and the other thing is they make LED lights from reputable manufacturers from China that are the strength of football stadium lights. so 206,000 lumens or little higher. high pressure sodium. but most of the American companies don't even want to try. it looks like to make a light. that's as strong as that. from the LED family. The last thing that gets on my nerves as a contractor and electrician is they're not very and depending on the fixture , lantern or head you get. repairable . stead of that HID lights are more fun to observe, especially when they come on.
This is my biggest problem with LED as well. They have much better consumption and the available color temperature options are nice too, but the E27s we use in our home are encased in plastic with zero heat dissipation despite having to run for several hours non-stop which generates a lot of heat. The branded ones easily cost at least 3x more than regular halogen 100W bulbs, and only have 1/3rd of the halogen's lifetime despite it being advertised as tens of thousands of hours. In most cases the LEDs would still work if it weren't for the power supply blowing up irreparably. In one case, an OSRAM LED bulb decided to fail with no prior warning, no flickering, nada. It just popped loudly and shorted the 230V Line to Neutral, so I had to look for our electrical cabinet key in pitch black to go out in the snow and reset the breaker.
Nice work 👌 we have a bunch of the old 4 pin, snap in fluorescent can lights throughout buildings at work. Making the LED swap as they go, but they are notorious for melting every damn thing!
Over the last 6 mths we have been eliminating all our ballast and switching to led bulbs in all light fixtures in over 80 properties! Lots of work but worth it
. *Don't just grab any LED bulb and install it without reading the box; some are not designed to be in enclosures do to lack of heat dissipation, because LEDs do give off heat, but from the back.*
Well it took me a year, but by myself, I replaced 2784 old t8 fixtures in an old plant with high bay UFO LED’s. Frustrating experience at times, overall it was enjoyable. At least now you can see with out a flashlight. 😊 I can definitely relate to replacing those old type of lights you have replaced, they have a few here at this plant, and just keep replacing the bulbs. Well not anymore.
Those look like metal halide or possibly mercury-vapor lamps (both have mercury in them). 250W metal halide bulbs put out about 22,000 lumens with very good color rendering but also a bunch of heat which is why everything is melted. The equivalent LED is about 100-150W so you'll save about 50% in operation.
Metal halides output 22,000 lumens NEW in 360 degrees. Then degrade lumens very fast. By half life they’re 12,000 lumens. Also the covers on them aren’t very clear, thus losing light, and a metal halide throws light 360. That fixture isn’t good at reflective half that light off the back. The LED’s emit only one side, thus gaining the light lost bouncing in the back that metal halide threw off
@@xzibit8614 Those are Scottdale 320 watt pulse-start metal halides. They were the shit 25 years ago, they were brighter per watt than regular metal halides, but in order to keep them bright you need to replace the bulb and capacitor every two years. The covers are glass and completely clear forever.
@@lextheelectrician Can you do a video on the steps a young person goes through to become a skilled tradesman, and what the average salary they can expect at each level. Trying to get my daughter to consider trades as an option but she will only take advice from a younger professional woman like you, because I’m a parent so what do I know! You’re the perfect spokesperson for educating young people on the trades!
Hey have you tried carrying the 12’ ladder on both of your shoulders? You just barely collapse the legs and tip it towards you onto your shoulders and walk away. Works good!
I think the majority of people are watching on phones nowadays. Sure its too cater to them AND she might be recording mainly for Instagram or TikTok. Just gotta get used to it.
If you have the time How hard is being an electrician, i have an upcoming apprenticeship program and i wonder would i need to do anything futher to get into the field. Also is how much do u get paid and is it physically tasking? Lastly what are the repercussions if u mess up (vague question ik but im speaking for more in simple general scenario) 😅
In the automotive and marine industry, I find that there are waaaay too many poor quality LED products being traded. To the point that its difficult to trust anything at all when it comes to premature failure. From my experience in these fields, if it does not come from an industrial catalog its a waste. As an electrician, do you have any input on the purchase sources for Home/Auto/Marine?
One of my favorite/ugh memories is going in to a two story residential that had been roughed in by the owner, an electrical engineer.:0 "At least he tried" cost him a lot of money.
those LED canopy lights chew through there ballasts WAY to fast and end up turning into flashing disco lights. i like LED screw - in retrofit (corncob) bulbs because they keep the fixture original and can easily be replaced. i would even go as far as keeping the original ballast and gear in the fixture, just bypassed and abandoned because what else is going to fill all of that space.
I got tired of the reliability of Metal Halids and changed mine to Mercury Vapor. Not as efficient, but the bulbs last ways longer. LEDs are getting better, but they still have some reliability issues.
Thanks for the math on this. Have a bunch of these in my garage that came with the house. Definitely going to look at replacing them with led versions.
A few years ago I looked into changing out the T12 florescent tube system to dedicated LED strip light housings in my garage but the cost was out of this world at the time for that type of LED system in 4 or 8 foot lengths ( not sure what they are priced at now ) So I instead looked into installing the T12 retrofit LED bulbs and they don't come in 8 foot style so I took out my 8 foot units and installed new 4 foot florescent housings but with the LED bulbs and those housings come with new electronic ballasts vs the old magnetic ballasts the original housings had. I also had original 4 foot housings on another circuit and so I tested the draw with an amp meter using the old bulbs, then swapped in the new LED bulbs and was in for a surprise, the power usage was exactly the same which meant those old magnetic ballasts were the power hungry culprit. I bought magnetic ballasts for my existing 4 foot housings and again tested the amp draw and it was about half the draw now. I expect that true LED strip lighting would draw the least power for the light output vs my retrofit but at the time it was just not a cost viable solution. Then not long after I did my project these so called retrofit 8 foot LED bulbs came out ( from China of course ) that were NOT approved for the USA/Canadian market which are to be installed in original housings but wired direct with 120 volts bypassing the ballast and I was told by licensed electricians that if those were installed and there was a fire, the insurance company would void the insurance since the housing was never certified to be used in that manner.
So I have converted several locations using the ballast bypass retrofit LEDs. I feel they are better for 2 reasons. 1 you aren't paying to run a balast/transformer you don't need and 2 you are eliminating a possible failure point that doesn't need to be there.
@@homeFall1 If I understand you correctly, you are installing the 120 volt direct connect retrofit tubes into what had originally been a florescent/ballast housing system as it was originally manufactured. Perhaps where your from its to code but not here in Canada and that was made very clear that it would not meet CSA approval. I don't doubt that it works fine and runs with less power for the light output but its that sticky factor of not being to code where I am from here in Alberta, at least not back when I did the swap over to LED approved bulbs for an original florescent housing. Like I mentioned, I wanted to get completely new LED housings from the ground up that were CSA approved but at the time they were out of this world price wise ( I was getting quotes of $600.00 for a 6 foot light strip for example ). I suspect prices have come down a lot but have not shopped for lights for some years now to know what the current pricing is on strip style lighting. Where I can, I do use the existing screw in light sockets with LED light bulbs as there is a significant power savings without a doubt.
@@charlesb4267 yup, those are what we used. I have no idea if they officially meet code or not. I do know that they are sold on the same isle as the direct drop in LED replacements that require the ballast to remain and the newer ones that say they can be used in either application at Lowes and Home Depot here in the states
@@homeFall1 It is very possible that a certification came along or that the USA has made some changes and will say also that I have not talked to the supply/electrician outlet lately to see if there have been some changes to the original decree of being not to code. Also should mention at that time there were no such bulbs being sold here over the counter, the only way to source them back then was to direct order them from you guessed it ... China, and those bulbs never even had a certification to be legally used at all no matter what in Canada at that time and no doubt why retailers or wholesalers were not handling such a product at the time. When I have a chance I will have a look at the Home Depot here, there are a lot of things we don't have in our Home Depot that you do in the states though just looking at the two websites to compare sometimes. I can grasp now why your using them given that they are right there at your retailers, they would have some sort of UL or CSA approval for the stores to sell them as otherwise they would be in a legal mess.
I have a high hat in pent over my front door with a shower rated drop gasket plastic lens. Noticed that we do not get close to halve the tiny bugs that we got inside lens with a 9 watt LED instead of the 60;watt incadescent lamps that we used for ladt 35 years. 0:05
Man, that is an OLD fluorescent ballast. Most LED fixtures have have ballasts too, they just call them drivers. The only exception are AC LEDs, which run directly from the line. They, however, flicker like crazy.
when LED ballasts go on the fritz, they turn wherever the lights are installed into a disco, those type LED canopy lights she installed a notorious for doing that.
That is the tallest A Frame ladder I have ever seen? Well done young Lady. Retired Electrician......PS: We would have rented one of those wheeled lifts for that as they are a lot safer!
My biggest gripe with a lot of people & businesses changing to LED is that a lot of them (business especially) choose to attempt to save money by retrofitting HPS/HPH/LPH fixtures with cheap LED bulbs which usually ends up resulting in similar power draw and significantly less light being produced. I also have a huge gripe with the CHEAPEST LED bulbs & fixtures. They usually come with a color that’s really hard on your eyes to appear bright but all it does is blind you and produce less light and it’s hard on nature overall & they usually have a very high failure rate which results in lots of blinking lights, dead lights, purple lights, strobe light lights, etc. it’s really disappointing to see all of this potential ruined by cost cutting on these lights with poorly implemented heat-syncs & soldering & capacitors & so on, just to save a little bit of money up front & end up having to spend more later to do it properly & cause even more e-waste than LED fixtures already cause. When implemented properly, LED is absolutely the way to go. Unfortunately there are many areas where this is not the case. I hope to see more properly implemented LED lights & I’d love to see them produce less e-waste. (I have a lot of property management under my belt)
I am fully switching out the led bulbs left to incandescent bulbs, I yanked out 6 of them so far. LED hurts my eyes, even 2700k. I Reject artificial LED lighting. There is nothing wrong with those light fixtures. LED still creates heat, wastes resources on microchips. Not green at all. The old lighting is and always will be better. Efficiency vs healthy light, I will gladly pay more for quality light that isn't LED. I would buy some of those metal halide light fixtures, would make a nice porch light.
LED is better, but if those previous fixtures and circuits are installed correctly they shouldn’t burn up. Especially if ballasts are replaced every 15 to 20 years. Yeah, they can run longer, but why…
I just had a simple 230 installed for a table saw , why couldn’t my electrician look like u wth The person that showed up was like 3 of u put together I thought he was going to collapse through my ceiling while climbing in the attic lol
LOL, just what I was thinking as I stumbled across this channel today, the odds of having an attractive young knowledgeable lady come to your door to do your electrical repairs or upgrades is pretty darned slim and not trying to be creepy, its just a fact of the trades although at one time I doubt one would ever find a female electrician, mechanic and so on, so definitely the scene has changed somewhat.
@@charlesb4267 I understand what ur saying but u saying not to sound creepy makes u sound creepy man wth nobody said ur creepy haha I was just messing around I ran into the channel looking up electrical stuff and just commented on it but ur right the chances of not getting some fat bastard to come work on ur things is slim to non LOL
Unless youre using an led lightbulb instead of an all in one/integrated LED fitting, its such a false economy. If a unit fails and it generally will fail within 6 years, you have to throw out the whole fitting and pay an electrician for a new fittting and the labour to replace it.
Yup. I pay under $20 a month, and some lights are on 24/7. It’s a 2-bedroom, 1-ba. house, so it’s not a lot of lights. I’ve got a single CFL in a closet I keep meaning to change, but it’s almost never on. My father used to turn off lights around the house, even when you stepped out of the room for a moment. I’d use the bathroom and when I got back to whatever room, the light would be off. It used to drive me crazy! So now that I’m old and paying my own bills, it’s very satisfying to leave the kitchen and a few hallway lights always on. 😂
LEDS is cheap running but buy it is bit expensive than globe is very cheap but more expensive bills... LEDS life about 5 to 7 years more than globes, etc...
The old oil filled magnetic ballasts are the worst. Electronic ballasts tend to fail uneventfully in comparison. LEDS just burn out without any fanfare.
Remember when compact florescent bulbs came on the market and congress tried to make all other bulbs illegal? Yeah that would have included LED bulbs which were being developed but not yet widely available. Yeah Pepperidge Farm remembers.
What year? What stopped it passing? Did it get to the floor and was voted down, did it die in committee, or was it vetoed by whoever was president? If you don’t know, you shouldn’t blame all of Congress. There are plenty of harebrained bills that don’t make it out of committee. There are some that do, but don’t make it to the floor. There are some that make it to the floor but don’t pass. Those that pass can be vetoed, unless there is a veto-proof vote (i.e., a veto can be overridden). Hey, if you’ve got the bill name and/or number, I could look it up and see the history of it. It’s too easy to blame “those dummies in Congress” for these sorts of things, especially things that don’t pass because Congress was actually doing its job. When you get into that habit, you might slip into the mindset that Congress does nothing right, all politicians are terrible, and you are a powerless victim. If you think that, you’re being lame and lazy.
The problem with LED is how bright they are. Unless the assembly is focused on the need, people just create far too much high intensity light pollution. Also, since people assume the LEDs are less power, I find some will let them run all night instead of using them in the same manner as the other bulbs.
Virtually none of the new LED streetlights in my area have cones to focus the light down--it just blasts out in all 360 degrees. The older high pressure sodium and mercury vapor lights they replaced typically had cones or diffusers to direct the light downward. Dumbass electric companies doing dumbass shit, a story as old as time.
Did a job the other day for an older couple who swore that LED was bad for your health. Apparently it messes with their biological force field around them. So they insist on incandescent and halogen bulbs. I left them to their vegan, hemp clothes wearing ways as soon as I could.
what has THAT got to do with the lights, the information is the main focus in this video. +, i wouldn't leave comments like this IIWU, you could be crossing lines you shouldn't. i just steer clear of distractions and watch for the information. sorry for sounding like an absolute stickinthemud/jerk.
