A 4 lamp 4 foot fixture can go from what you have now about 7200 lumens in led terms or the equivalent of replacing a fixture that has four brand new fluorescent tubes with four 1800 lumen led tubes to nearly twice as bright about 12 000 lumens with four 3000 lumen led tubes depending on the lumen rating of your led replacement tube.
Replacing fluorescent bulbs with led bulbs.
How to replace t8 fluorescent lamps with t8 led tubes.
Uses the existing fluorescent ballast and light fixture wiring.
Look for dimmable on the led tube packaging when dimming is required.
New led bulbs are also safer since broken fluorescent bulbs can expose you to mercury.
Despite fluorescent being efficient themselves t8 leds hold a number of advantages when comparing the two.
You can just remove the fluorescents install the leds and you re done.
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Using this method a commercial installation can have a high voltage of up to 277v but this can be dangerous if safety standards aren t followed to the letter.
Fluorescent was once the cost effective and environmentally preferred lighting solution.
Most of these tubes are designed to simply fit into the fluorescent light fixtures you already have.
Types of led tube lights.
Replace your fluorescent tubes with bright reliable long life led tube lights and cut your lighting bills in half.
By retrofitting led lights you ll also be future proofing your home and saving money replacing bulbs.
This is the oldest way of replacing fluorescent tubes with led bulbs this option allows the user to bypass the use of a ballast circuit as the wiring passes through the line voltage instead.
Led light tubes are popular replacements for the long fluorescent light tubes as they can last much longer and don t contain toxic mercury.
Replacement plug and play type a.
There are four basic types of led tubes.
In addition to the energy savings our led tubes have an average lifespan nearly 70 longer than t8 and t12 fluorescent tubes which means significantly fewer bulb changes for you.