Recent content by Steven Rothschild

A lot of old ballasts buzz. Was the sign used for outdoor use? If so, nobody cared if it buzzed. The ballast will be specific to 7 ft lamps and the lamps will be pricey sign lamps too. Are you retrofitting the sign for historical accuracy or to light it up? If it is the latter there are LED...

The socket you have is mogul. There are mogul to medium socket converters. That would let you use a medium socket lamp. Either that or just rewire it with a medium socket, but you would need to get it securely installed. Be sure to bypass the ballast if there is one.

The reflective material is to stop glare so don't worry about that. It also reduced light. What you don't say is your voltage? Makes sure your mew lamps are the correct voltage. Yours could be 120v, 240v or even 277v. To deal with the length of the neck you can use mogul to mogul socket...

T8HO will light in the cold. It is what I used in my garage. That is the good news. The bad news is the lamps are expensive and they do not handle on off cycles well. If T8HO lamps are turned on left on all day you will be all set. If the lamps are turned on and off frequently the lamps...

In a garage you need relative high lumen output. To achieve this with high light levels is expensive. High quality LED lighting works well but has not come down to a price that justifies performance. Not only are they expensive, but they typically last 50,000 hours (with 70% lumen maintenance...

I ran an analysis of a 19 X 24 room with 16ft ceiling. Using 6 units of 6 bulb T8's you are looking at 101 foot candles which is definitely too bright. To save on cost you could use as little as 4 units of our 4 lamp T8. This will get about 47 foot candles. Plenty of light to work. For...

Hello Kevin. Chances are there isn't enough wire to reach the ballast. What you may want to do is change where the light socket is to an outlet, and then just plug your new T8 fixture into the outlet. That way any time you need to work on it, you can unplug it, work on it, and plug it back in...

To light your garage, you need six 6 lamp T5HO luminaires which will achieve 57 footcandles. This will be a little brighter than your average Walmart. If you want to take it up so it's a workable place for cars, you can make it brighter by using eight 6 lamp T5HOs which will achieve 77...