Dude! 6 years later and you’ve still got the best vid on how to do this. This is the 5th vid I’ve watched on this, and the 1st ont that made sense! Thank you!
I’m about to do this project in my basement and so I’ve viewed just about every video on retrofitting these lights. By far, you have done the absolutely best job of explaining the wiring setup for the dual ended bulbs. THANK YOU!!!
Thanks for the video explaining the difference betweem single sided and double sided LED lights. I watched four other videos and wired it for double sided when I had bought single sided. You were the only one to explain the difference. I was about to call an electrician. You saved me big bucks.
Much better quality than many of the do-it-yourself efforts on TH-cam. Complete and accurate. Some of the other ones are incomplete (covering only one style of wiring.)
This is by far the best video guide I've found to rewire our shop lights, we had 4 bulb 1 balast lights and no one explained this better than you. Also one thing I didn't know was about the dual or single ends, I had to go check and my bulbs needed power on both ends. Thank you thank you thank you and not having music playing while you're talking.
Great job young man. Keeping it simple and to the point. Your communication skills and very good. I have five fluorescent fixtures flush mounted and will leave them in place to remove ballast and do the wiring on a ladder. Too much work for me to tear them all down just to rewire per your excellent video. Thanks. ...and yes, I will turn off the circuit breaker and double check with meter.
@@ceecee8757 yeah, where are all the ladies retro fitting their flourecent lights to LED ? Can't be harder than cooking T--giving dinner for a family, huh? Ladies need manual skills as much as anyone in this day and age, in my opinion.
Greg,. Just bought 8 LED bulb tubes for my long suffering shop lighting needs. Paid under $60 for the lot. Color and lumens, etc is acceptable. Feit is the brand they had. Seem to be double ended, but it didn't say as far as I can tell. Wired them up as single sided and they didn't work, so more wire will be used. Hope they work as well as other folks LED convertions do. Yours is a good tutorial, so thanks my friend. Bob. Happy New Year
Great Explanation - most other explanations are not clear as to why they connected it the way the did - meaning it is clear now how to connect single ended vs. Two sided. Thanks!
i know its almost 4 years later, but after half a dozen videos and websites, this video finally got me to figure this out! thank you! im an idiot when it comes to home improvement stuff and being that my wires were never the same color as what everyone else said (I HAVE NO YELLOWS!!!) but your explanation helped me. thanks again!
juggnuttz. Here's what I did to "convert" different colored wires to show neutrals -- spray paint the last 3 or 4 inches of the wires with white paint on each end before stripping. Then place them in your 'stones like normal
Hey, thanks a ton ton ton !! I watched A lot of like videos, no one ever said there was a reason for wiring it differently, so when given a choice who would wire it one sided .. and is which what Ive been doing and tripping garage breakers... Diagram helped a lot to!
Thanks for step by step instructions.I was able to convert my bathroom light that has failing ballast.Ordered Sunco led lights from Walmart website which is much cheaper than Amazon.Needless to say my bathroom now is more brighter than before.👍👍
Just built the LED light. Works great lights up the 125 nice. Should look really good after I add the Black Diamond sand to it, a few plants and my old tank will be my new adventure. Thannks
This video was a ton of help. I tried to do this on a fixture with shunted tombstones and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. Now I know. Thanks.
Great video .. only suggestion I have is for safety 🦺.. when we convert to l.e.d. bulbs take a permanent market & write ( led only ) or if it has use sticker that comes with bulbs. Only reason for that is if bulb goes out & next person tries to install a flurescent bulb it will explode/pop & burn tombstone up.
Nice job Greg... just a note on the terminology... the L stands for line not load. The bulb is actually the load but in AC electrical terms, the L is the hot side or line and the N is the neutral or common side. You did a great job on the video...in a lot of instructional videos, the host is all talk and no action. Sometimes I just want to toss my iPad across the room. You got to the point and kept it interesting. Thank you!
If you use a small nail, saftey pin or needle, you can remove the wires from the tombstones in order to bridge them together and shunt them using short pieces of wire. This cuts down on the number of wires in the wire nuts. Instead of four wires, you have one connecting to the hot or neutral.
Interesting that one only needs one side and using the proper bulb. "They" sales people selling the bulbs make it sound so easy to install. Not one sales person mentioned Shunted or non shunted lamps.....perhaps they do not know, but they should. Great video thumbs up thanks!
Great video! Unfortunately the Sunco mfr does not have double-ended bulbs now. They only sell single-ended bulbs. I replaced a bunch of fluorescent bulbs with double-ended ones and now if any burn out i will have to rewire fixture for single-ended and mark it as such. I would prefer if they were all the same.
Great video Greg! I'll have to do this project on my older 48" shop light! I appreciate the tutorial it's going be very helpful! I'll post a video of me doing what you just did but I'll give you credit of course in the video and in the description!! Thank again!! :P
I saw your video, because I want to try switching over from T8 to LED lights for my houseplants, but I have a problem and that is most of my lamps don't have visible screws to take them apart to find the ballast to remove. The model number on one of them is .234SLESW, rapid start, and the "tombstones" seem to be sealed in as a single plastic unit on each end of the lamp. (these are what I find locally available at Menards.) The bulbs I'm trying to use are GT-Lite T8 grow bulbs. The claim on the box is that they can retrofit a number of older fixtures except "electric chip" though the directions on what works and what doesn't is a bit lacking. It was only in a single place that I found the disclaimer about electric chip ballasts. That said, I have one fixture like the one you used that I can attempt this project upon when I feel ready to tackle it. I haven't removed the ballast and the retrofitted LED works as advertised. The other lamps that I described, do NOT work with the LED lights, even though they are listed on the bulb's box as compatable aka "rapid start", "instant start.". One smoldered and sparked. The other just popped and then shut off. The remaining fixtures I haven't tried. Are these just sort of out of luck, disposable once they quit being useful with old fluorescent lights, or can they be made compatible with LED bulbs?
Awesome demo Greg. If you do a followup could you watch out for the colorization of the fish, watch for a temp from them, and maybe put some plants under them to see how the do? Thanks! :)
Great video! I saved it as a tutorial for an upcoming four lamp kitchen light LED project. Any thoughts on the $6.97 shop light LED bulbs from Harbor Freight?
we have got clear led tubes 4ft,non shunted,removed the led strips an inserted 3 -150 watt led full spec strips,i used A LED DRIVER TOO,IT WORKED GREAT DID A 4X4 ROOM ON VEG TO FLOWER,4 LED TUBES,RED,BLU,WHITE, TOP SHELF ,HIGH INTENSITY LED STRIPS,NON SHUNTED
It looks like you could use shunted for you double sided diagram, instead of running two wires into one end, because you will have power to both pins with one wire. You would short the single side light with shunted though. Thanks for the video
Nice tutorial but with one exception. If your fluorescent fixture has shunted sockets just use them and save your self a lot of trouble and expense. Its really no trouble to simply connect the wires (or wire) from one end to your hot wire (usually black). Connect the wires (or wire) from the other end to the neutral (white) wire. That's it. You don't have to buy new sockets. Just remember to buy double-ended LED tubes.
Very nice! I also just found a 20-Pack T8 LED Light Tube, 4FT, 18W (40W Replacement), 5000K (Day Light), 2400lm, Frosted Cover, Dual-End & Single-End Powered, Works with/without ballast, Shatterproof, UL & DLC. It’s worked out well for me.
Hey Grey.. I did test the t8 philps led with shunted lampholder since the new casing bought is thinner and used only 1 wire at both ends.. Nothing really happened.. Then, i tested with normal Non shunted and walla it works.. I think the casing meant for double sided led.. But the label on the philps says other way around.. Glad the led wasn't damaged..
I have an old neon light fixture using the fat neon tubes and ballast. The ballast is faulty, and I want to convert to T8. Do all the tombstones have to be replaced to accommodate the skinnier T8, or will the pins still work in the older tombstones? THUMBS UP!!
I have the same lamps, model 1233, and wired them exactly as you have demonstrated, but the bulbs do not light up. I know the bulbs are good because I've tested them. Any thoughts?
Would seem cheaper to just buy a wood plank(cut to the size of the bulbs) and then purchase an electrical cord, wiring, tombstones and do it that way. Maybe add some mylar and make your own reflector. Just make sure you find a way to ground it. Also would need mount hooks + chains.
Currently, my kitchen using 6 T8 Florescent Lights / 3 ballast or TWO florescent per ONE Ballast. Is it possible to replace only ONE PAIR with LED and the remaining TWO Florescent will remain connected, All 3 Ballasts powered by ONE SINGLE wall switch. Will the OLD Florescent Lights affect the circuitry of the LED Light Tube. The reason I'm converting only ONE was because the existing ballast of the florescent was DEAD.
You are right about that, the author admits he knows little about electricity. This video is out dated, at this time, there are many LED "tubes" out there that use 12VDC directly, the terminals are actually marked + and _. The ballasts need to be disconnected and DC power supplies need to be wired in their place. I have seen some replacements that actually have an internal power supply that utilize either directly 115VAC line voltage or still utilize the ballasts. Jim
Funny that you said that nobody uses t12 anymore...I was at a Home Depot where I live, and a sales person told me that nobody uses t8 anymore when I was looking for a t8 version of a fixture lol..
Hi, sir, I really like the video you shot. Could you help us take a video of the installation of our brand's 4-foot led bulb? Looking forward to your reply.
Nice very informative.. I'm just wondering.. If it is dual sided led, can it be used with shunted lampholder.. Because one end is live and the other is neutral.. One more thing.. What if the led is one sided input with the label L & N at the end.. Can it be used with two sided wiring? Will it work? I have a philips led T8 ecofit.. There's a label about the wiring diagram.. One is for the 1 sided wiring and the other with 2 sided wiring for live & neutral at one end of another..
I have LED bulbs by ge T8 replacement. I have T12s. So I checked for shunting. All 4 tombstones are Non-shunted. I was able to take off the back of the tombstones without damaging to physically verify. Not knowing if the New T8 LED bulbs are single or double ended bulbs. I took a meter to it and Checked for continuity. On both ends I have checked for ohm values. I get 12-13ohms on both ends. When I take an ohm reading from end-to-end I get an open circuit. So how would I wire it up these bulbs? Do I put a black and white at each end of the light bulbs?
I've purchased a Phillips UniveralFit T12 replacement light tube. On the packaging it does not tell me if it is single ended or double ended. How can I tell? Also, how can I tell if the light tube can be used without a ballast or not if the packaging does not specify?
It's strange that they have not standardized the wiring for LED tubes - some a re single sided wires with a dead end and the others have powers on both end with one side hot and the other is neutral. Shouldn't you have tested the old tombstones to see if they were shunted or not? In an a very old fluorescent with a starter are they usually shunted or not?
Costco has a two led light fixture with led bulbs. Why not buy a new fixture with bulbs already installed? There is very bright and sells for about 20 dollars!
Because those lights are part of the fixture. You cant replace them if they burn out. Also he bought a fixture to illustrate the process, but a lot of people already have the lamps, they just want to change to LED bulbs. I did buy one of the built in types, and depending on where you need them, they are great.
i have a t-12 led 4ft shop light, it has reg white light,is thier any easy way to make it full spectrum for plants,?i use a 8 bulb t-5 to veg up ,an a 4bulb 2ft t-5 to clone an start seedlings,would the flour fixture conversion work the same on t-5s,thks
Dude! 6 years later and you’ve still got the best vid on how to do this. This is the 5th vid I’ve watched on this, and the 1st ont that made sense! Thank you!
DUDE😂 COW POOP
Probably the best LED T8/12 shop light conversion video for a DIYer
I’m about to do this project in my basement and so I’ve viewed just about every video on retrofitting these lights. By far, you have done the absolutely best job of explaining the wiring setup for the dual ended bulbs. THANK YOU!!!
Couldn’t agree more. Just converted a machine shed overhead bench light and all went like a dream exactly per your instructions. Thank you so much!
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Thanks for the video explaining the difference betweem single sided and double sided LED lights. I watched four other videos and wired it for double sided when I had bought single sided. You were the only one to explain the difference. I was about to call an electrician. You saved me big bucks.
Man Please, I'm sooooo proud of you. I just feel better knowing you are out there.
Much better quality than many of the do-it-yourself efforts on TH-cam. Complete and accurate. Some of the other ones are incomplete (covering only one style of wiring.)
Great video. You are very talented at giving clear concise directions and the music ain’t bad either 😀 Thank you
This is by far the best video guide I've found to rewire our shop lights, we had 4 bulb 1 balast lights and no one explained this better than you. Also one thing I didn't know was about the dual or single ends, I had to go check and my bulbs needed power on both ends. Thank you thank you thank you and not having music playing while you're talking.
Hey! you plagiarized my my thought exactly! LOL
Finally, a video that explains how to do the conversion.
Great job young man. Keeping it simple and to the point. Your communication skills and very good. I have five fluorescent fixtures flush mounted and will leave them in place to remove ballast and do the wiring on a ladder. Too much work for me to tear them all down just to rewire per your excellent video. Thanks. ...and yes, I will turn off the circuit breaker and double check with meter.
I agree as long as access is good.
Thank you for this video. I'm a housewife,but this video helped me
convert our old fluorescent fixtures into LED. I'm really happy!
You go, girl!!
@@ceecee8757 yeah, where are all the ladies retro fitting their flourecent lights to LED ? Can't be harder than cooking T--giving dinner for a family, huh? Ladies need manual skills as much as anyone in this day and age, in my opinion.
After watching many videos, this one is the best. Thank you
I agree. You helped me. I needed a shove to get started and this did it. 🎉
Just used your guide to rewire an aquarium light for our new LED light, went flawlessly, thanks for the video!
I'm pretty sure you can use shunted tombstones for double ended bulb as its all the same wire going in
Greg,. Just bought 8 LED bulb tubes for my long suffering shop lighting needs. Paid under $60 for the lot. Color and lumens, etc is acceptable. Feit is the brand they had. Seem to be double ended, but it didn't say as far as I can tell. Wired them up as single sided and they didn't work, so more wire will be used. Hope they work as well as other folks LED convertions do. Yours is a good tutorial, so thanks my friend. Bob. Happy New Year
Thank you for the easy walk thru. Followed your video step by step and my lights are up and running!
I am such a newbie with electrical projects but was able to follow along and alas it worked! Thanks Greg!
Your vid is the best explanation I've seen on converting fluorescent to LED
Great Explanation - most other explanations are not clear as to why they connected it the way the did - meaning it is clear now how to connect single ended vs. Two sided. Thanks!
i know its almost 4 years later, but after half a dozen videos and websites, this video finally got me to figure this out! thank you! im an idiot when it comes to home improvement stuff and being that my wires were never the same color as what everyone else said (I HAVE NO YELLOWS!!!) but your explanation helped me. thanks again!
juggnuttz. Here's what I did to "convert" different colored wires to show neutrals -- spray paint the last 3 or 4 inches of the wires with white paint on each end before stripping. Then place them in your 'stones like normal
Excellent video. Some are telling people to switch out tombstones instead of deciding the type of bulb needed shunted or non. Easy instructions
Thanks man! Watched a lot of videos about this. You explained everything very well. Best video on this.
I had received the Sunco brand bulbs and followed your instructions and installed ten lights. They all work very bright. Thanks
Hey, thanks a ton ton ton !! I watched A lot of like videos, no one ever said there was a reason for wiring it differently, so when given a choice who would wire it one sided .. and is which what Ive been doing and tripping garage breakers... Diagram helped a lot to!
Thanks for step by step instructions.I was able to convert my bathroom light that has failing ballast.Ordered Sunco led lights from Walmart website which is much cheaper than Amazon.Needless to say my bathroom now is more brighter than before.👍👍
Thank you for taking the time to video and share with us your experience. Very helpful. 😀
Just built the LED light. Works great lights up the 125 nice. Should look really good after I add the Black Diamond sand to it, a few plants and my old tank will be my new adventure.
Thannks
The most important thing is the connection type. Saw many videos on one side connection but I had 2 side connection bulbs. Thanks!
This video was a ton of help. I tried to do this on a fixture with shunted tombstones and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. Now I know. Thanks.
Great video .. only suggestion I have is for safety 🦺.. when we convert to l.e.d. bulbs take a permanent market & write ( led only ) or if it has use sticker that comes with bulbs.
Only reason for that is if bulb goes out & next person tries to install a flurescent bulb it will explode/pop & burn tombstone up.
Best video on converting these fixtures, thanks
Excellent job, you are good teacher!!
I saw some videos and you explained the best and also the painting is very understandable. Thanks
Nice job Greg... just a note on the terminology... the L stands for line not load. The bulb is actually the load but in AC electrical terms, the L is the hot side or line and the N is the neutral or common side. You did a great job on the video...in a lot of instructional videos, the host is all talk and no action. Sometimes I just want to toss my iPad across the room. You got to the point and kept it interesting. Thank you!
JohnnyLightning ! Haha it's funny 😆😆 L can means either Live or Load.. It's the same thing.. Don't confused ppl 😁😁
I love your diagram! Very clear and easy to understand.
Great job explaining something that looked daunting. You make it look so easy. Thanks!
I subscribed because I genuinely learned A LOT from this video. Thank you so much for your detailed guidance!
Great video very helpful. Your video is best .
Awesome indeed Greg.
Best explanation with a clear video.
If you use a small nail, saftey pin or needle, you can remove the wires from the tombstones in order to bridge them together and shunt them using short pieces of wire. This cuts down on the number of wires in the wire nuts. Instead of four wires, you have one connecting to the hot or neutral.
Thanks very much for the clear instructions! This was very helpful!
Interesting that one only needs one side and using the proper bulb. "They" sales people selling the bulbs make it sound so easy to install. Not one sales person mentioned Shunted or non shunted lamps.....perhaps they do not know, but they should. Great video thumbs up thanks!
I agree lol ..I'm still kinda confused and I have spent many many hours researching this damn light shit
Great video! Unfortunately the Sunco mfr does not have double-ended bulbs now. They only sell single-ended bulbs. I replaced a bunch of fluorescent bulbs with double-ended ones and now if any burn out i will have to rewire fixture for single-ended and mark it as such. I would prefer if they were all the same.
You're statement to "not use" the shunted tombstone is great. I've seen other videos that mention using shunted tombstones. Confusing.
Thanks Greg, great video, works like a charm. Very clear demo and was easy to do the retrofit.
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Great video Greg! I'll have to do this project on my older 48" shop light! I appreciate the tutorial it's going be very helpful! I'll post a video of me doing what you just did but I'll give you credit of course in the video and in the description!! Thank again!! :P
I saw your video, because I want to try switching over from T8 to LED lights for my houseplants, but I have a problem and that is most of my lamps don't have visible screws to take them apart to find the ballast to remove. The model number on one of them is .234SLESW, rapid start, and the "tombstones" seem to be sealed in as a single plastic unit on each end of the lamp. (these are what I find locally available at Menards.) The bulbs I'm trying to use are GT-Lite T8 grow bulbs. The claim on the box is that they can retrofit a number of older fixtures except "electric chip" though the directions on what works and what doesn't is a bit lacking. It was only in a single place that I found the disclaimer about electric chip ballasts. That said, I have one fixture like the one you used that I can attempt this project upon when I feel ready to tackle it. I haven't removed the ballast and the retrofitted LED works as advertised. The other lamps that I described, do NOT work with the LED lights, even though they are listed on the bulb's box as compatable aka "rapid start", "instant start.". One smoldered and sparked. The other just popped and then shut off. The remaining fixtures I haven't tried. Are these just sort of out of luck, disposable once they quit being useful with old fluorescent lights, or can they be made compatible with LED bulbs?
Very much helpful video, many thanks!!
Awesome demo Greg. If you do a followup could you watch out for the colorization of the fish, watch for a temp from them, and maybe put some plants under them to see how the do? Thanks! :)
Great video! I saved it as a tutorial for an upcoming four lamp kitchen light LED project. Any thoughts on the $6.97 shop light LED bulbs from Harbor Freight?
we have got clear led tubes 4ft,non shunted,removed the led strips an inserted 3 -150 watt led full spec strips,i used A LED DRIVER TOO,IT WORKED GREAT DID A 4X4 ROOM ON VEG TO FLOWER,4 LED TUBES,RED,BLU,WHITE, TOP SHELF ,HIGH INTENSITY LED STRIPS,NON SHUNTED
Great video. Thanks much, this could have been an Electro Boom moment! 😷
Thx sir for the sketch diagram found v. Easy
Very clear explains, nice
It looks like you could use shunted for you double sided diagram, instead of running two wires into one end, because you will have power to both pins with one wire. You would short the single side light with shunted though. Thanks for the video
Your just so knowledgeable and helpful .... great video Greg 🤗🤗
Thanks PB!
Excellent video and very educational, you should be a teacher man. hehehe. Thanks and I am going to fix my led lights in the garage now
You can use shunted stones for double ended bulbs as its all the same wire delivering to an end.
Nice tutorial but with one exception. If your fluorescent fixture has shunted sockets just use them and save your self a lot of trouble and expense. Its really no trouble to simply connect the wires (or wire) from one end to your hot wire (usually black). Connect the wires (or wire) from the other end to the neutral (white) wire. That's it. You don't have to buy new sockets. Just remember to buy double-ended LED tubes.
Very nice! I also just found a 20-Pack T8 LED Light Tube, 4FT, 18W (40W Replacement), 5000K (Day Light), 2400lm, Frosted Cover, Dual-End & Single-End Powered, Works with/without ballast, Shatterproof, UL & DLC. It’s worked out well for me.
Brilliantly explained in detail ! Thank you very much.
Thank you for the detailed instructions. It was very easy to understand. I think I am now comfortable to try it.
thank you for your time.
Your video was the easiest one I understood to date. My question is not light related, what’s the humidity level there in the “Fish” room? 😳
Great work
Hey Grey.. I did test the t8 philps led with shunted lampholder since the new casing bought is thinner and used only 1 wire at both ends.. Nothing really happened.. Then, i tested with normal Non shunted and walla it works.. I think the casing meant for double sided led.. But the label on the philps says other way around.. Glad the led wasn't damaged..
Great video😊
Best informational video💯💯💯
I have an old neon light fixture using the fat neon tubes and ballast. The ballast is faulty, and I want to convert to T8. Do all the tombstones have to be replaced to accommodate the skinnier T8, or will the pins still work in the older tombstones? THUMBS UP!!
Great Job
It would be wise to check each "Tombstone" connector with an OHM meter to insure you don't have shunted connectors!
I have the same lamps, model 1233, and wired them exactly as you have demonstrated, but the bulbs do not light up. I know the bulbs are good because I've tested them. Any thoughts?
good job amigo , very simple thank you.
thanks, happy 2019, very clear demonstration, solved my problem
Would seem cheaper to just buy a wood plank(cut to the size of the bulbs) and then purchase an electrical cord, wiring, tombstones and do it that way. Maybe add some mylar and make your own reflector. Just make sure you find a way to ground it. Also would need mount hooks + chains.
The bulb is the load.
The black conductor is the line
Great help brother thank you!!! I saw a bunch of tutorials with electricians and sounds like there speaking Greek
does it matter which side of the fixture you make the hot? left or right, and does it matter which way you put the bulbs in?
Currently, my kitchen using 6 T8 Florescent Lights / 3 ballast or TWO florescent per ONE Ballast. Is it possible to replace only ONE PAIR with LED and the remaining TWO Florescent will remain connected, All 3 Ballasts powered by ONE SINGLE wall switch.
Will the OLD Florescent Lights affect the circuitry of the LED Light Tube.
The reason I'm converting only ONE was because the existing ballast of the florescent was DEAD.
Great instructions. Lonely orange fish makes me sad.
In my 40+ years in electronics/electrical, "L" is for Line (hot), not Load, even though it goes to the load in this case.
You are right about that, the author admits he knows little about electricity. This video is out dated, at this time, there are many LED "tubes" out there that use 12VDC directly, the terminals are actually marked + and _. The ballasts need to be disconnected and DC power supplies need to be wired in their place. I have seen some replacements that actually have an internal power supply that utilize either directly 115VAC line voltage or still utilize the ballasts.
Jim
Funny that you said that nobody uses t12 anymore...I was at a Home Depot where I live, and a sales person told me that nobody uses t8 anymore when I was looking for a t8 version of a fixture lol..
Looks like shunted would work fine for a double sided bulb.
It would be nice if you did a video for single ended led tube.
Great video. But isn’t L for Line ?
Hi, sir, I really like the video you shot. Could you help us take a video of the installation of our brand's 4-foot led bulb? Looking forward to your reply.
Great video! First one that actually shows how to do it.
Is there anything special to do if you have a T12 setup or do the bulbs work in either?
Nice very informative.. I'm just wondering.. If it is dual sided led, can it be used with shunted lampholder.. Because one end is live and the other is neutral.. One more thing.. What if the led is one sided input with the label L & N at the end.. Can it be used with two sided wiring? Will it work? I have a philips led T8 ecofit.. There's a label about the wiring diagram.. One is for the 1 sided wiring and the other with 2 sided wiring for live & neutral at one end of another..
I have LED bulbs by ge T8 replacement. I have T12s. So I checked for shunting. All 4 tombstones are Non-shunted. I was able to take off the back of the tombstones without damaging to physically verify. Not knowing if the New T8 LED bulbs are single or double ended bulbs. I took a meter to it and Checked for continuity. On both ends I have checked for ohm values. I get 12-13ohms on both ends. When I take an ohm reading from end-to-end I get an open circuit. So how would I wire it up these bulbs? Do I put a black and white at each end of the light bulbs?
How do you put a pull chain on that light to shut it off
I've purchased a Phillips UniveralFit T12 replacement light tube. On the packaging it does not tell me if it is single ended or double ended. How can I tell? Also, how can I tell if the light tube can be used without a ballast or not if the packaging does not specify?
This really helped, thanks!
Is the t-12 brighter then the t-8,I have a large shop. Thanks
Hi I bought V TAC LED tube and dummy starter is included. Do I need it to set up without ballast?
It's strange that they have not standardized the wiring for LED tubes - some a re single sided wires with a dead end and the others have powers on both end with one side hot and the other is neutral. Shouldn't you have tested the old tombstones to see if they were shunted or not? In an a very old fluorescent with a starter are they usually shunted or not?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but does the T-12 Lithonia shop light fixture come with the Non-shunted Tombstone lamps?
I FOUND IT ! THE BEST
Costco has a two led light fixture with led bulbs. Why not buy a new fixture with bulbs already installed? There is very bright and sells for about 20 dollars!
Because those lights are part of the fixture. You cant replace them if they burn out. Also he bought a fixture to illustrate the process, but a lot of people already have the lamps, they just want to change to LED bulbs. I did buy one of the built in types, and depending on where you need them, they are great.
I appriciate what you did that making you lost a lot of time, many thanks
i have a t-12 led 4ft shop light, it has reg white light,is thier any easy way to make it full spectrum for plants,?i use a 8 bulb t-5 to veg up ,an a 4bulb 2ft t-5 to clone an start seedlings,would the flour fixture conversion work the same on t-5s,thks