Help with 9' Diamond florescent table light conversion to four 8' daylight frosted 5000k LED tubes

jazznpool

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I have a 2014 florescent Diamond table light fixture with 4 tubes 8' long (T12), single prong ends. I have seen the frosted daylight 5000k single end 8' LED ballast bypass tubes for sale on Amazon for about $70 for a 4 pack. My understanding is that the ballast in the 2 light units inside the fixture needs to be disconnected with the wires reconnected. Is the conversion as simple as this or am I not understaning this correctly? The florescent lights are not bright enough and leave shadows along the end rails. I recently played on tables converted to daylight LED tubes and liked what I saw. Searching the history here was only partially helpful. Thanks in advance. Martin
 
I've done a ton of these. It's really a simple as removing the ballasts and running the wires to each 'tombstone' on the ends. The lights will come with a wiring diagram that shows it.
 
jazznpool said:
I have a 2014 florescent Diamond table light fixture with 4 tubes 8' long (T12), single prong ends. I have seen the frosted daylight 5000k single end 8' LED ballast bypass tubes for sale on Amazon for about $70 for a 4 pack. My understanding is that the ballast in the 2 light units inside the fixture needs to be disconnected with the wires reconnected. Is the conversion as simple as this or am I not understaning this correctly? The florescent lights are not bright enough and leave shadows along the end rails. I recently played on tables converted to daylight LED tubes and liked what I saw. Searching the history here was only partially helpful. Thanks in advance. Martin
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Yes.
 
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I changed over 80 fixtures in my auto repair shop. Yes it's that simple and Nick's diagram is perfect, until about number 50 when you're sick and tired of it.

Here is the punch line. Expecting to see a big relief on my electric bill and sadly no. But PP&L did pay for the change over. I have no idea why their pie in the sky math didn't seem to translate to my bill as promised but I'm not surprised. The program made it sound like life changing savings but I can't even buy a cup of coffee. LMAO

I would see no reason frankly to change over a single pool table light unless the ballasts are already bad or something. In fact I have an 8 foot light and it's the only thing I own that's still running florescent bulbs. All the other were four footers and didn't want to spend the money on 8s
 
Coos Cues said:
I changed over 80 fixtures in my auto repair shop. Yes it's that simple and Nick's diagram is perfect, until about number 50 when you're sick and tired of it.

Here is the punch line. Expecting to see a big relief on my electric bill and sadly no. But PP&L did pay for the change over. I have no idea why their pie in the sky math didn't seem to translate to my bill as promised but I'm not surprised. The program made it sound like life changing savings but I can't even buy a cup of coffee. LMAO

I would see no reason frankly to change over a single pool table light unless the ballasts are already bad or something. In fact I have an 8 foot light and it's the only thing I own that's still running florescent bulbs. All the other were four footers and didn't want to spend the money on 8s
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Yep, I switched over to LED 4'ers a couple of years ago (8 bulbs with 2 ballasts). Worked just fine until recently when one of the ballasts went bad.

Now I'll rewire the ballasts instead of replacing the bad one. Thanks for the info everyone.
 
Coos Cues said:
I changed over 80 fixtures in my auto repair shop. Yes it's that simple and Nick's diagram is perfect, until about number 50 when you're sick and tired of it.

Here is the punch line. Expecting to see a big relief on my electric bill and sadly no. But PP&L did pay for the change over. I have no idea why their pie in the sky math didn't seem to translate to my bill as promised but I'm not surprised. The program made it sound like life changing savings but I can't even buy a cup of coffee. LMAO

I would see no reason frankly to change over a single pool table light unless the ballasts are already bad or something. In fact I have an 8 foot light and it's the only thing I own that's still running florescent bulbs. All the other were four footers and didn't want to spend the money on 8s
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LED bill relief is real but its figured over long-term. You don't see much short term.
 
The LEDs seem to be brighter to me too.

I have a four foot kitchen fixture with ballasts that seems to start slow some days and other days it is fine. I think I will switch it over soon. The diagram looks pretty straight forward and I have done a lot of wiring on homes and autos. I already have a bag of wire nuts too.

Thanks for posting this info here.
 
Running joke is 3 months or 30 years. I've installed tons of straightwire ballast bypass lamps. A HUGE pet peeve is irreparable led fixtures with no lamps.

I removed my HO T12 lamps in my table fixture and straightwired 4 8' HO LED lamps and it's incredible. I'm on 3 years, fingers crossed.
 
bignick31985 said:
Running joke is 3 months or 30 years. I've installed tons of straightwire ballast bypass lamps. A HUGE pet peeve is irreparable led fixtures with no lamps.

I removed my HO T12 lamps in my table fixture and straightwired 4 8' HO LED lamps and it's incredible. I'm on 3 years, fingers crossed.
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HO T12 fixtures have an annoying buzz. I started out with them 30 years ago in my shop and the LED upgrade was the second one.
 
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