6 Feb
2015
6 Feb
'15
9:53 p.m.
On 02/06/2015 06:33 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
These also scare me, because they look just like
fluorescent tubes,
but will almost certainly get fried if put into a fixture with a
rapid-start ballast. These drop in to the FIXTURE and socket, but the
ballast needs to be removed and rewired. Also, if somebody ever put a
standard fluorescent into one of these modified fixtures, it might be
messy.
One of the user comments really bothered me--it seems that the 120VAC
goes to the two heater pins on one side of the "tube", not one on each
side. Poof.
Why on earth did they do it that way? Better to have wire leads and
wire the thing in permanently.
--Chuck