The Easiest Comprehensive Method Of LED Tube Light Installation2645584

Installing LED tube lights is a great way to save money on electricity and get potentially hazardous fluorescent lights from your home or office. However, a large amount LED tube lights on the market today can not just be instantly installed in a current fluorescent fixture. You will need to make some simple modifications to the fixture to properly install the bulbs. The good news is, that installing a LED tube light  in a pre-existing fluorescent fixture is comparatively simple.

Fluorescent fixtures are made to support a specific types and dimension of fluorescent tube. A fluorescent tube is integrated with a fluorescent lighting mechanism which consists of two or three main components: (1) the fluorescent lamp (fluorescent bulb or tube), (2) the ballast, and (3) the starter system. In addition, the system for a tube lamp includes a lamp holder and a switch. Based on the particular fluorescent lighting device, the starter may be a replaceable material, a starter may not be necessary, or the starter performance may be built-into the ballast. The starting function may also rely on the concrete design of the bulb. To retrofit a fluorescent light fixture to support a LED tube light, the ballast (and the starter if another one is present) must be disconnected.

Be sure that the LED replacement tube lights are the suitable size for the fixture. Also, bear in mind when maintaining a fluorescent fixture or lamp for any purpose, electrical power to all the fixture should be disconnected.

You might need a few simple tools, including a wire cutter and wire stripper (often incorporated into the same tool), a set of pliers, a screwdriver, and some wire nuts for reconnecting any wires once you have removed the ballast.

Once the old bulbs are taken off the lamp holders and the energy to the fixture is turned off, you will also have to remove the reflector which is located behind the lamps and provides a housing for the wiring and ballast that are situated behind it. Typically, it is fairly easy to remove the reflector or cover, but if it is not apparent how to accomplish this, you should consult the documentation from the fixture manufacturer.

If the fixture has an electronic ballast, you simply need to get rid of that and then wire the power right for the lamp grips, completing one circuit for each light. This is simple, and customarily you can use the present wire in the fixture and then just add some wire nuts. If you have an older fixture with a magnetic ballast and starter, you will have to remove or open the starter and remove or short the magnetic ballast.

When the ballast (and starter, if one was present) have been taken out and the wires reconnected, to complete an electrical connection for each bulb, change the reflector or cover over the wiring and the place where the ballast was located, and the LED tube bulbs can be inserted in the end sockets. Not like fluorescent bulbs that do not effectively have a top or bottom, a LED tube light  should have an obvious top and bottom, having metallic heatsink located on the backside of the cylinder and the LEDs noticeable under a lens on the side that will be aimed towards the spot to be highlighted. Place the lid back on the fixture (if there was one) and switch on the electricity. Start up the switch and if you have done everything properly, you must have a good or better lighting using approximately half the electricity and last for as long as 50,000 hours or more.