Recent content by JimmyPlenderleith

I completed the setup today and it works great!! Thank you all for the information and how-to, I greatly appreciate it!

With two ballasts in there, do I completely unwire the load and neutral wires from one of the ballasts, then cut the other ballasts load and neutral. Use those load and neutral to wire up the tombstones on each end? That second ballast I just want to make sure I dont need to also cut the load...

Ahh yes, that is right.....I will get it right eventually.....I know it said 5000K was like "daylight"

Thanks, my wife wants it "as bright as I can get it" in the laundry room, so I was going to go with 5000K

Does Home Depot or Lowe's have any ballast bypass bulbs I could use? Looking to go grab them, remove the ballasts and do the wiring. I have two ballasts in the fixture..when I cut the wires for both ballasts, how does the wiring go into the fixture? I can use T8 bulbs in the fixture with the...

That Lithonia is integrated LED...trying to avoid that. I think doing the bypass shouldn't be too hard, I can definitely handle that. Will have to get the doubled ended bypass bulbs and see how it goes. I will report back with how things work out Thanks everyone again for the help, I greatly...

Yes, the color.....always nice to see my utter lack of lighting knowledge on display!!! Yeah, I need it to fit in the current drop ceiling as I'd like to just drop it in, wire it up and turn it on! I dont know if the fixture is good or not....the way bulbs go in, maybe have full brightness for...

Honestly, I dont know a good answer to that!! The fixture was already there when we bought the house. Its a 4 x 2. When bulbs burned out, I took them out and saw they were T12 bulbs, so that is what I got a box of. When I replaced the ballast, there was only 1 ballast in the fixture, so...

Excellent.....I will go that route!! Thanks again.

Would cleaning the contacts on the sockets make any difference? They look black and when I move the bulb around, the dimness / brightness will change. Or is that just not worth it either and I should just get a new led fixture? Is there anything special about the LED fixtures I need to look...

Have a 4ft x 2 ft, 4 Bulb, T12 fluorescent light fixture in my hanging ceiling. Its been there since we bought the house. About a year ago, the lights started to dim on all four bulbs. I went out and replaced the ballast and the lights seemed fine for a bit, but after another month or two...