How to easily convert fluorescent Lights to LED - UPDATED!
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If there are awards for clear, concise, useful, and conversational DIY videos, this one wins them all. Thank you.
CA resident here, your video is clear, easy to follow, and exactly what I needed, thanks!
This was so helpful. Thanks! I converted a kitchen fluorescent fixture to LED Hybrid Type A+B today, and everything worked very well. No one locally (in Arkansas) sells the kind of LED tubes you recommend in the videos. I checked Lowes, Home Depot, ACE, and BatteriesPlus. But when I talked to a clerk at a local light bulb specialty store, he had heard of these kinds of bulbs and respects the product. He called them Smart bulbs instead of hybrid. I ordered from amazon, and installation was very straightforward. I don't normally do electrical DIY. I rewatched your video many times to make sure I understood the steps. Thanks again.
The shortest video gets right to the point. Thanks for keeping it short!
I just finished my first conversion; and can't believe how simple it was! I used Wago 221 connectors, and the job was amazingly easy. Thanks for the tutorial.
Glad it helped!
Ok, you just changed my mind. This looks very doable even in a short time frame. Thank you.
edit to add: ok, I apparently have t12 so I'm looking at a bigger project again. 😮💨 I can't seem to find t12 led bulbs as it looks like t12 was starting to be phased out in 2013? The amount of crazy bulb-specific fixtures in this house we bought is just non-stop.
You gained another subscriber today. I came across dozens of videos for the same issue. Yours, by far, was the best one. Concise, clear instructions for dummies like me. Appreciate cha!
Happy to help! Thanks for subscribing.
Just stumbled across your video. I didn’t realize how simple it was to convert the fixtures over to LED. Thanks for the info! You’re making me look really smart in front of my wife LOL 😂
Toolbox DIY....helping dudes look smart to their wives since 2016 😉
Thanks bud! Bypassed mine today for $40. A/B model GE T8 bulb. I appreciate the knowledge and information about getting this done 👍
Glad I could help!
I've been wanting to convert my lights for some time. After seeing this update I ordered a box of twenty. I found out that these are not plug and play for all fixtures. I rewired two so far and am very pleased with the results. Much more light than with the old fluorescent tubes. The price of each tube is in line with the cost of a standard fluorescent tube so these are a winner.
Thanks for the update.
These are not cheap and will they last as long as the ballest ones? Even the one that works without the ballast has some electronics in its heads and it is not cheap as well, so it is not all together an easy ride. One can cost as much as nine pounds in UK. In my work placs we need ten thousands light, the ballast do not go off so often the light do, but the lights are very cheap. However if you have light that needs no ballast but cost as much as nine pounds for a pair of tubes they are certainly not cheap because in one year you will have at 60 blown out of ten thousands light and that means as much as 900 pounds a year cost. So it looks cheap but they are not cheap, the one that requires with ballast may be the better option because those one are normal price and those one are very good but the one that says no ballast at all you will find out when you change ten thousand of them and each pair cost as much as 9 pounds per pair.
@@Dailymailnewz here in the United States they cost about the same price. The ballast are around $20 though. I work for home Depot in the electrical department.
@Geoffrey Morrison 1. That’s only for instant start which is never used in work places.
2. There is so little mercury that it’s not gonna hurt you.
3. There will always be a huge market for fluorescent lamps because of how common they are.
4. In theory yes but in practice they never last as long and use the same amount of power and put out more light.
5. Modern fluorescent tubes with triphosphor coating can be tuned to any color temp and have a 90+ cri which leds struggle with (especially over a long period of time.
Double ended ballast bypass LED tubes are the best. They're simple to wire and you can't mess up wiring them.
I like the way you jump into the topic and get us where we need to go. Great coverage of details such as the bare grounding wire, the looped tombstones and safety issues.
Much appreciated!
Thanks for this video, Chris! I watched your prior video (4 years old) first and I was wary of all the steps. But this video convinces me that I can do this conversion without too much difficulty (we shall see!!). The reason I need to convert is because my fluorescents do not work well (if at all) in cold temperatures (i.e., my garage workshop. Right now, it is in the 40s F and only 2 out of 4 fixtures work. I am buying LED bulbs tomorrow!! Thanks again.
I followed your instructions exactly, although mine had 2 wires each for the hot end rather than one in your video. No problem. I just connected them all together to the existing house black. Worked like a charm. Very simple! Thank you.
You're welcome! Glad to help.
I like your wire stripper. I use the Wago wire connectors. I don't use twist-type connectors at all anymore. They are much easier than I found very secure.
Thank you! Very easy to understand. All the other videos had waaaay too much fluff; when it's very simple. One end hot - one end neutral...
Just converted my garage lights, amazing difference! Used the double end method and it was a breeze. Thanks for the video.
Excellent. Welcome to the club!
Thanks for your time and interest. Ima go crazy converting these lamps.
Great videos. Having the knowledge from both was more comprehensive to assist with converting two bathrooms, the laundry room, and the garage. It was a total of 7 different fixture configurations. The only problem is now I need to wear sunblock in my bathroom. 😂
I took the ballast out of both and they work fine. Thanks again for a great video.
I've watched other videos on how to do this project but yours made the most sense and made the project so easy. The others were so confusing. Thank you!
My thoughts, too. Camera work was excellent.
I installed 4 set of the hybrid tubes in identical fixtures. They worked only for two months. When removing each old tube from the fixtures I notice one end of the reflector was lightly blackened. Today, I installed the type B tubes and removed the ballasts. Hopefully, these tubes will last a lot longer. Removing and rewiring around the ballast was simple.
Why is an LED bulb only lasting 2 months?
Very professional. No BS; simply an excellent How-to video.
I appreciate that!
What I thought too.
Great advice! Some reflector are stainless steel but most at white. I used a black magic marker to mark (-) and (+) on the ends. Others may not be into electrical so I mark them for the next guy.
I don't know how others do this, but I use zip backs for receipts, install papers that show part numbers and I. D. the bulb and part that come with the box end tab, etc. Then I file these in a drawer of my filing cabinet, next to dishwasher, ceiling fan, door locks. I don't call companies to fix or replace things the break at home or in car.
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Thank you for passing this information on 🙏🏽
Great video but I just have a clarification question: the blue wires are being connected to the black (HOT) correct, and the red wire is being connected to the white (NEUTRAL), correct. The angles of your shot block the actual wire colors.
You have it correct, but he mentions at 7:55 that it doesn't matter. He would have been fine if he connected blue to white and red to black.
I had the exact same problem. But you are correct.
Agree with you.
Nice video, very informative. You should put a link to those wire strippers in your description.
Excellent video! No wasted time and clear instructions.
Thank you!
This was much cleaner and simpler than other videos. Thanks.
Awesome that you showed all the combinations of what works together
I watched five other videos and was still confused on a few things. I wanted to do a double ended connection, but I wasn't sure if I needed to change the tombstones. I had checked mine and found they were shunted. I also wasn't sure whether to buy b-bulbs or the a+b bulbs. Thanks for clearing all that up.
You were supposed to cut the other side wires completely and bridge the other side to be life and neutral. The tube L side be connected on that side with wires.
Great video...
I stumbled across this, after I started converting my fluorescent tubes to LED, and ended up with problems. After watching your video, I believe my problem is the LED tubes I bought....my home depot only sells the philips universal fit, plug and play. I don't think they work without a ballast. I have removed the ballast, replaced the tombstones, and wired them for single ended power...
I'm going to order the bulbs you recommend, and see if they work.
Not all T8 fixture lampholders (tombstones) are shunted.only the ones wired to instant start ballasts. Program Start T8 and all T12 rapid start ballasts require unshunted lampholders. It’s good to see there is a hybrid version of these T8 LED retrofit tubes available for use in line with ballast, wired direct to incoming power or single or double sided wiring for direct power. I agree that it is cleaner and more efficient to bypass the ballast in these fixtures since the ballas still draws Danton power when tubes are operated inline with ballast.
I used to work for the US Navy and did hundreds of lighting retrofits in facilities. The Navy banned the use of these retrofit LED tubes in their facilities when I was there. Not sure if they still do. At one point I did a demonstration project in the office building I worked in, where we had three-lamp F32T8 fixtures, and retrofitted them down to two-lamp T8 LED tubes (bypassing ballast). I worked under these fixtures for a year and had no problems with the light levels. Energy consumption and fixture illumination output was recorded and analyzed.
loved the video , been wanting to convert my garage lights to led and you made it look simple ,Thanks
I replaced my fluorescent lamps with single ended ballast free tubes. It didn't require any new parts. The far end tombstones are simply bypassed too and are only for support. That is the simplest solution in the long run.
With single ended wiring approach, you need to be sure the tombstones are non shunted (the pin socket one side of the tombstone is electrically isolated from the other pin of the tombstone). In some fluorescent fixtures the tombstones are “shunted “ (one pin socket is electrically connected to the other pin socket on the same tombstone). Some led lamp manufacturers will supply non shunted tombstones if you need to remove shunted tombstones on the existing fixture you are converting ).
@@cayuga74 By "single ended" I'm referring to tubes that have no electrical connections on the far side, they are simply mechanical supports.
@@eminusipi understood. I am just pointing out that in the scenario where you are wiring both hot and neutral to the same tombstone, where hot goes to one pin connection socket and neutral goes to the other pin socket of the same tombstone, that tombstone must not be the shunted type or you will have a dead short. Some fluorescent fixtures in the past did have shunted tombstones
What's your opinion on doing Type B single vs doubled ended? I just converted my fluorescent lights to Type B single ended and I love the brightness, efficiency, instant on and lack of ballast. So glad I did this!
I don't remember the brand of LED tubes I used, but they come with double ended pins. One set of tombstones has two blue wires and two red wires. These 4 wires get wire nuts on the black wire coming from the power cord. The other set of tombstones have three wires, consisting of 1 red, 1 blue, and 1 yellow. There is also a short yellow jumper next to the longer yellow that goes to the red wired tombstone. These 3 wires get tied to the white power wire, also called negative or neutral. By pass the ballast by removing it from the metal fixture and cutting the wires from it close to the ballast case. Wire nut the wires together as described, put in your LED tubes and you should have light. A tip: if you are only going to do one or two fixtures for now, and several others in 6 months or a year, take a piece of paper and make a simple wiring map or diagram so you won't forget and have to open up a previously wired fixture to see how it was done. The whole thing takes about 5 to 10 minutes.
After removing the ballast & stripping the various blue wires, the 'new' attachments were on the very edge of the viewing screen. Since this is critical, it would have been helpful for this to be in clearer view. Thanks!
You changed my (garage) life! Thank you!
Happy to help!
Wow, that looked easy to me, someone who generally doesn't even try to deal with electrical items.
Thank you sir. Very clear and helpful instructions.
This was a very helpful video. Thank you!!!
I bought some double ended Type B tubes (GE product 32w T8 Direct Wire) and was all ready to go after watching this and many similar videos. But then I saw the instructions on the box say to add “the recommended fuse and fuse holder (not supplied) to the hot wire from the mains”. My question is (a) what would the fuse be for and do I really need it? And (b) if I do need one how do I know what kind of fuse? Thank you!!
I have two fluorescent fixtures downstairs I want to convert to LED. This was a great video. This is no different than hanging a new light fixture. Once the fixture is converted do you typically mark which end is hot for the bulbs?
Well done tutorial. I am intending to convert my garage overhead flo's to led. Ballast are junk anyway. what's the best way to search for an led equivalent for a T8 4100K 32 watt 3000 Lumen equivalent? (if one even exists)
I’m going to convert my garage fixtures to LED. I am a little concerned about running 120vac thru the old 12 DC wiring though. I’ll probably switch it over to a heavier gauge.
soo complicated, and convoluted!
Thank you souch for explaining it so simply.
What would you do to make these dimmable? Anything on yhis end needs to be done, ot jsut a dommable switch is enough?
This looks easy enough. Would this be the same thing I would do for an old fluorescent bar light?
I'm going to change mine over once my bulbs burn out. Great video, short and sweet.. 😂
Great video and a very simple process. I have a 4 tube (2 on each side) and 2 ballasts. I presume I can group like colored wires together and connect as you show. My fixture also has yellow wires. What do I do with them?
Thanks!
Will this work on commercial fixtures where the voltage can potentially be higher that that of a home's +/-120? Wasn't sure whether the ballast also acts as a voltage "regulator" and if so, would commercial voltage be too much for the bulbs... Or maybe that's not even an issue??
Great video... well thought out and presented!! Thank you.
Some questions, please.
1. In the conversion that you did in the video, can the type A+B bulb be inserted in either direction? It was sorta implied, but I never heard it said explicitly.
2. Aren't type B bulbs made specifically for fixtures with ballasts removed? So if I am going to remove the ballast, why not use them instead? (If you said why, I missed it).
3. If I got double-ended Type B tubes, can they be inserted in either direction? I assume so, but again, I'd like to hear it.
4. Finally, got any idea which way the wind is blowing? Be a shame to pick one (i.e. single end) and then have them go the way of Beta-max!
Finally, thanks, this was extremely helpful and understandable.
Hi,... Did not talk about shunted or non shunted.... Does the power wire, as well as.the white neutral wire need to be. Attached to both pins of the lamp end???
This was very good, thanks! 👍
It's working! Thank you for your lesson
Thanks you for the video. This made my retro fit easy. 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Afternoon, I’m attempting to convert the fluorescent lighting in my house to LED lighting because the ballast throughout the house are not performing. I have attempted a ballast by-pass because I want to get rid of all of them and learned an incompatibility between my bulbs and my wiring methods. I used a GE- Savant Type A bulb with a ballast by-pass to learn the output of these bulbs are much lower than expected.
What would you recommend compatible bulbs and light fixtures. Ballast by-pass is my preferred method because I am led to believe that I will eliminate a future repair!
Thank you
This is worth to watch, thanks man ..
My pleasure!
After I watched your excellent video, I decided to convert my fluorescent to led. Unfortunately, my fixture is for 18 inches tube and I looked everywhere for 18 inches LED tube with no success. Is it available on the market somewhere ? Thank you for your help.
18" are hard to find. I don't know if they meet your needs but I found these: amzn.to/3ZC9Mvd
@@ToolboxDIY Thank you very much for your help.
Friggin' rock star, thanks brotha!!!
The three blue wires: Did you join them to the black live wire? And what wire did you connect the red to? Sorry, but if you could be more specific about the wire connections. I am really a rookie at this.
I have a T12 ballast and two bulbs. Besides the black and white wires going into the ballast, there are two yellow wires going to the tomstones on one end and two reds and two blues going to the tombstones on the other end, so it's different than what you are showing.
Yes, just about every ballast manufacturer has a slightly different wire color scheme and the number of bulbs for the ballast also comes into play. The concept is exactly the same though. You can cut the two red and two blue and connect those with the black hot wire. Then cut the yellow wires and connect those to the white neutral wires.
Great video. Just what i was looking for. BUT can you connect this system to a DIMMER switch? My fluorescent light is in the kitchen and I’d like to dim it when we’re having dinner. Any other light fixtures won’t supply the brightness we need in the kitchen. Thanks
Is the end with the daisy chained wires a shunted or non shunted system? Thanks for the easy to understand video.
Same question. would like to know how this work? we can do daisy chain also on the Hot wire side? Thanks.
Good job & good speaker
Hello, I recently changed my recessed lighting (CFL) to retrofit LED (6") and I'm just wondering because the last video, the vlogger was saying "Blue always goes to the White and Black always goes to the red." In this video you connected Blue to Black and Red to White. By the way, I love your wire stripper. Thanks for this video. Much appreciated.
Are the blue wires connected to the black and red to white ,
Can LED's and Fluorescent be mixed in the same circuit? For example if three F light fixtures in series and I just convert one or two fixtures which have bad ballasts. The last one is hard to get to and has an old school magnetic ballast.
Is there a way to go back to fluorescent?
We upgraded to LED about 6 months ago, but they're all flickering and have dead spots now. It's also next to impossible to find fluorescent fixtures in shops.
I wish we had kept the 30 year old fluorescents now... They might have been old, but they worked without any problems for three decades solid.
Maybe
Did the conversion with a 2 bulb fixture as instructed. No light. Maybe I have the wrong bulbs? I bought Philips Universal Fit Plug & Play T8 & T12 replacement.
Very helpful! Thank you!
The one you've got is new type, got anything for the older magnetic type that are wired different???
Do you have any recommendations for single pin 8 footers? What ones to buy?
Is this the same for T8 and T12?
Thanks for making this video. I removed the ballast from my fixture and re wired it the way you described. Black power wire to one tombstone at one end and white to the other tombstone. I tested with a multimeter and can confirm that I have 120v from one end of each tombstone to the other however I get no light when I installed a universal Type A Linear LED Bulb. I know the bulb is good because I also tried installing it in a different fixture which does have a working ballast. Do some Type A LED’s require a ballast? I wouldn’t think so, but I’m at a loss for what the issue could be?
Type A requires a ballast. It's Type B that requires removing the ballast.
Your video will help me a lot. I need to change under the kitchen cabinet tubes to LED. The existing tubes are F30T12, 30 W. I plan to remove the ballsts in all three fixtures. Where can I buy T12 LEDs. I only see T8 LEDs,
You can use T8s in place of T12s. 1000bulbs is a good resource if you have single pin T12s and want to replace those with LEDs.
One question, the answer which eludes me even after a fair bit of searching is, can you mix hybrid A&B tubes in the same fixture with standard florescent? I'm short a couple of the hybrids and until I get more I'm considering mixing them with some of my old stock florescents.
I've never tried mixing bulbs like that, but I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't work. Let us know how it works out!
You didn't say the red wire hooks to the blue power wire or the white neutral when you were converting to LED on the fixture?
7:59 Blue going to hot and then red going to neutral.
These tubes would be good for situations where you can't modify a fixture, such as when you rent.
I'm confused. Wouldn't the modification that you made be appropriate for Type B (double ended connection) LED tubes? Why do you recommend Type A+B Hybrid for this modification?
I recommend the modification because I have a beef with ballasts. Well, to be more accurate, I have the worst luck with ballasts. I've had far too many fail on me. So I now recommend bypassing the ballasts for all LED conversions. Since you already have the ladder out why not get in front of a potential future problem!? But bypassing the ballast is not mandatory for these hybrid tubes. If you decide not to bypass it, you can always come back to this video if you get struck with my bad luck and the ballast fails. That's what I really like about these tubes...options.
@@ToolboxDIY I ended up ripping out the ballasts and wiring in all my basement flourescent fixtures. They all had non-shunted tombstones, so it was simple to re-wire them up in parallel for cheap single ended led tubes. It was a two day project, but well worth it. Your video gave me the inspiration to attempt it.
@@ToolboxDIY I did the type a a left ballast in a fixture in my house on an 8foot ceiling because I actually didn't realize I'd bout LED bulbs, not fluorescent! I bought type A nonballast only for some 12foot tubes that were in fixtures about 25feet of the floor of a garage because they were the only I saw in home depot and lowes. And I only put 1 35watt LED to replace two 75watt fluorescents mainly because they were quite expensive, but they seem as bright if not brighter than the old tubes/ballast. Plus garage is un heated so they work better in the cold! I didn't put a sticker on the fixture but I figured the next person to replace these will find out they won't run fluorescents the hard way! Had about 15 old bulbs to get rid of but home depot took them in their recycle bin!
@ToolboxDIY I've just been offer a 1099 for retrofitting LED lights but I'm not sure on how to bid it. Would I charge per light? And if I decided to hire on labor how much should I bid the job for?
@@ToolboxDIY I've been offered a 1099 for to retrofitting LED lights but I don't know how much I should charge. Should charge per light and if I hire on labor how should I factor that in my bid? Thank you
Hi, I'm converting to led and need short tubes.... Any recommendations on where to find short tubes??? 12", 32", 24".... I need them all.
It is not clear to me which wire you are connecting to the stripped red wire, 9:40.
Neutral
How about disclosing the manufacture name and part number for these type A or type B fluorescent tubes used in the video.
Product links are in the description!
Wish i could see which wires you cinnected off screen. Thanks for trying.
Question - I have a 4 bulb florescent light with the two outer lights not working. Can I replace these two outer bulbs with the new LED lights and will all four bulbs light?
Excellent video.
Thank you very much!
My Philips plug and play led T8 tube worked on a rapid start ballast fixture even though the tube said”use only in instant start ballasts”. How did it work on the rapid start?. (Feel free to ask here)
Is the startup time much faster than the old fluorescent tubes? I have old fluorescent fixtures where the startup time is about 2 to 3 seconds, which is annoyingly slow, especially with motion switched lights.
Shouldn’t you also label which side has the hot connectors and which has the neutral connectors? Maybe the fixture also needs to be labeled that it's wired for the connections on both sides of the tube, not just one side of the tube.
The blue connects to black and red connects to white? Is that right? It was hard to see what the red is connected to. Thank you
Well I'm learning ALOT about LED and fluorescent batten lights.
I accidentally put in a fluorescent tube into an LED batten light. The tube mading a "pop" noise. I then saw the "do not install flourescent tube" sticker on the batten.
I then went back to Bunnings (I'm in Australia) and bought LED tubes and installed them...but the light doesn't work anymore? Do LED batten lights have a fuse? Did i blow a fuse or something? Or some how did i break the light fixture?
I want to know cost to install one led tube
ToolboxDIY, I would like to upgrade all of the fluorescent lamps in my garage to LED. I had a few bulbs burned out so I purchased 4 of these new A/B tubes. I installed two LED's and left two fluorescent in the assembly. All was fine. I added a 3rd LED, still good, finally I put all 4 LED's in and when I turned the light on, all 4 LED's were on but at about half brightness. I took two LED's out and left it that way for now.
BUT I would like to put LED's in all the fixtures in the garage and remove the ballasts. I opened one up today hoping to find something similar to whats in your video, but I'm never that lucky. My lamps have two yellow wires going to one end of the lamp. Each yellow wire feeds two tombstones. The other end has 4 wires, two red & two blue. The red is connected to two tombstones and the blue is connected to the other two tombstones.
Can you enlighten me as to how to wire this so I can get rid of the ballasts and go full LED?
If I can remove the ballast, can I use B lamps (they are a little cheaper)
I have photos of the ballast and the wires to the tombstones if you need to see them.
Thanks
Great update. Thanks. Now i feel like finally tackling this long overdue project. I need to replace several broken off tombstones though so let's see how that makes it harder to complete for me. They still need to be shunted tombstones if you keep the double ended style LED tubes even if your remove the ballast, correct?
I would use shunted tombstones for the replacements however most double ended tubes can be powered through either pin so non-shunted is likely to work.
Cool update. Thx. Hope this vid is as successful as the last. Here when 1400 views was the count. 12/31/2020.
My fixtures are 4 tube with 2 ballasts. How do I join the correct wires when I bypass or remove the ballasts?
Thank you, clear explanation
Glad it was helpful!
You have great videos and instruction style. I have been looking for instructional videos on converting fluorescent 2D bulb floor lamp to LED. Do you have any videos to help with this? My lamp uses a SP-120-1/55D GR10Q-4 and I can't seem to find details on how to do this.
Thanks for the video, but the one thing you don't really mention, is why we would want to do this? How does the LED bulb performance and reliability compare with a fluorescent?
I know LED bulbs are in theory more reliable however, in some cases the built in circuitry that allows them to plug and play with various fixtures/power types can fail long before the LED's would fail. I have had LED replacement bulbs fail after only a few weeks of partial use, and yes you can return them but...
I know LED's are far more efficient than incandescent bulbs, but how do they compare with more efficient and longer lasting fluorescent bulbs?
One reason to do this is in a garage where it gets cold in the wintertime. My fluorescents were constantly flickering or not coming on at all if it was too cold. LEDs solved that issue and have been working great for years.
@@financialdave8514 Yea have since replaced mine as well as the ballast was getting unreliable. I found some that are substantially brighter, really helps working in the Garage. I am very happy with them so far and would also recommend switching, at least in places where you need a lot of light.
There is no comparison to the lumination from the LEDs. LED is so much brighter then the fluorescent ones I had.
Not to mention the hazard of mercury if you break a fluorescent
My fixture is 2 24" T12 20W and there two wires running to each tombstone...Two reds to one & two blues to the other one at the same end and then two yellows down to the other end which are jumpered together. What do I do here????
Are there LED tubes that aren't as harsh as fluorescents? I'm looking online, but I don't really see anything, and, the only reason I'd want to convert them is to have a softer, more incandescent-like lighting in my kitchen. I'd hate to have to replace everything.
I've seen a couple of venders that list 4' LED tubes that have a color rating of 3500K. Most 4' fluorescent have a color rating of 4100K. You won't see much of a difference. Most warm lights for home use are 2700K.