How to Replace Traitional Light by LED Tube Light?
LED tube light now is used to replace fluorescent light. However, most LED tube lights on the market today can not just be instantly installed in a pre-existing fluorescent fixture. In order to install LED tube light, you should make some simple alternations to fixture to properly install the bulbs.
You need to retrofit the LED tube light to fit for fluorescent light fixture. Well, fluorescent fixtures are created to support a specific types and dimension of fluorescent tube. A fluorescent tube is incorporated into a fluorescent lighting mechanism which consists of two or three major components, like fluorescent bulb or tube, the ballast, and the starter system. Ensure that the LED replacement tube lights are the right size for the bulb. Cut off the electrical power before you maintaining a fluorescent fixture or lamp for any reason.
In order to retrofit the LED tube light, you need to prepare a few simple tools, like a wire cutter, wire stripper, a couple of pliers, a screwdriver, several wire nuts for reconnecting the wires once you have removed the ballast. You should remove the reflector that is located behind the bulbs and provides a casing for the wiring and ballast that lie behind it once the existing bulbs are pulled from the lamp holders and electricity to the fixture is turned off.
You should move bulb and simply wire the power right for the lamp holders if the bulb has an electronic ballast. You have to remove he starter and eliminate or short the permanent magnetic ballast if you have an older fixture with a permanent magnetic ballast and starter.
Insert the LED tube bulbs in the end sockets when the ballast have been removed and the wires reconnected, to complete a circuit for each bulb, swap out the reflector or cover the electrical wiring and the location where the ballast was located.
LED tube light could have apparent top and bottom with metallic heatsink being on the backside of the cylinder and the LED's noticeable under a lens on the side that should be aimed towards the area to be lighted. You can start up the electricity after you placing the lid back on the bulb.