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I decided to by pass the ballast in all my fluorescent light fixtures. I put t8's in the shop in 1999 and now a few of the ballast are wearing out so this is a good up grade and remove the ballast with more bright lights for these old eyes... I read somewhere the led bulbs will last longer if there is no ballast. I did tell her to get a known brand....She did get GE's but she said on the box, that name right there, you won't be happy with where they were made!!!!! And as I was removing my clothes for my nightly shower I noticed the back brace as I was taking it off, made in China. Oh, for anyone interested if you are wanting to see what all the Kelvin's and lumens have to do with brightness and what hue you might want to work under then click on to 1000 bulbs.com and they have all their bulbs with lumens and kelvins on in room type situations from the low numbers to the brightest to see before you buy.. And you don't have to order from them. So at least check out what looks you want your rooms and shop to be filled with....Then you can go take out the candles you are now using and move up in this world. Yes I know most have already bought but did you actually get to see rooms with all the different ….brightnesseseseses before you plucked down your wad.....
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Ordered these LED shop lights, came 4 to a pack from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XGBKDKZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_detailpage_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I see the price has gone up. They are lightweight, crazy lightweight. Like a kids toy, but they all worked and did so after a 1 hour burn so maybe I will not have to replace. I made some small 2 x 5 inch blocks to mount to ceiling each with a mounting screw in the middle. The lights do not come with said screw, they have some plastic adapter that probably does the same thing but I made my own anyway. The holes for the mounting screws were to small for my stock machine screws so I used my Dremel to open them up a bit and accept the screws I had, as in plenty of them. Took me about 15 minutes to take down the old florescent fixtures and cap off the wiring. Had the new ones up in about 20 minutes. Ran them all to one extension cord and turned them on. NICE! Tomorrow I will install the outlets in the ceiling so each light can be unplugged and replaced with ease if needed. Got that tip years ago from Bearpaw. Some of my current lights have already be ungraded in such a manner but the main shop lights had been hardwired since I bought the house. These units can be plugged end to end, but only two lights per circuit. I opted to run them just like the old ones so each has a plug to go into. Could have gone either way but I do intend to use them end to end in another location. For an hours worth of work and clean up so far I am pretty satisfied with the results. One nice thing about upgrading to outlets in the ceiling is I can easily replace any light without cutting power and wiring a new light in. May go ahead and upgrade the other locations for this while I am at it just to speed up installation next time. The package as received: Previous 3 fixture florescent lighting, with one 3 ft LED I added in December over the Drill Press: New LED shop lights, 4 in all. My temp hook up to test them out:
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