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See How to convert Stern CCFL light fixture to LED

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1 year ago


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#9 1 year ago

Pretty much same procedure in gottlieb 80B too. wire colors might be a little different though. Make sure you get the LED tubes that put mains on each end of the bulb for this wiring guide. Some LED tubes wire up by having mains going to only one side of the tube.

Try pointing the LEDs at the circuit boards. I think it looks better that way (less glare).

#11 1 year ago
Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:

First thing I would do if I ever owned a pin with a fluorescent bulb. If you never thought about how dangerous fluorescent bulbs can be, just take a look at the EPA's information on them: https://www.epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken-cfl
I've done this swap with all the fluorescent fixtures in my house. So much better as the LED tubes generate little to no heat, the light doesn't change color/dim over time, and LEDs have none of the annoying noise that fluorescent transformers can make.

CFL bulbs where such a scam and we all mostly fell for it. There was an army of people crusading to use them. Any efficiency gain from CFL was lost to cost of building them and disposal. It's crazy to think CFL is gone but you can still buy incandescent. Ten - fifteen years ago everyone said the opposite. The light spectrum from a warm CFL sucks too. We should have switched to LED sooner and kept on using incandescent in the stop gap time. If anything CFL delayed LED tech.

Thankfully LEDs lights can be really good looking, cheaper than cfl to build/disposal, efficient, last a long time. I have one overhead basement fixture with flourescent bulbs left that rarely gets used. As soons the bulb or ballast goes out in it, will be all LED.

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