I really want some of those for my garage, as I'm tired of replacing bulbs and hassling with ballasts that puke after 3-4 years. Someone was talking about just doing lamps a while back, but IIRC it required rewiring the fixtures.
Dan Sent from my iPad > On Sep 19, 2016, at 2:19 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I bought some of the LED "shop lights" from Costco a few weeks back and put > them in the garage. Those things put out some really good light, maybe more > than the tubes, were like $25 each, come on immediately, are in a format just > like the 4ft tube fixtures. They weigh nothing so easy to hang. I might get > some more to replace the tube fixtures I have in there. > > --FT > > >> On 9/19/16 10:54 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> I have a similar problem with a 2 bulb unit in our kitchen, in our case I >> think its the bulbs since they came with the house when we bought it 10 >> years ago. My plan is to replace them with LEDs but since we almost never >> use the big fluorescent fixture I'm also thinking I might replace the whole >> thing with a much smaller fixture and move the big fixture into the >> basement. I'd still replace the tubes with LED tubes though... >> -Curt >> >> From: archer75--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Cc: "arche...@embarqmail.com" <arche...@embarqmail.com> >> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 10:42 AM >> Subject: [MBZ] Strange effect >> 2 years ago I replaced he transformers in the four tube light assembly >> over the sink. The last few weeks sometimes one, sometimes two of the bulbs >> on the same shared transformer didn't come on until I twisted one of them in >> its sockets. >> Yesterday I found that just touching the glass in the middle of the tube was >> all that was needed to make it come on. I've done that repeatedly and every >> time the tube(s) light up as bright as usual. >> The only thing I can think of is some sort of capacitance effect that lets >> weak voltage/amperage from the dying transformer ionize enough of the gas to >> complete the circuit. >> The primary cause is probably the Chinese transformer from Home Depot since >> neither of the new bulbs is affected. >> Gerry >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- > --FT > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
