1/4/2023 0 Comments Ballast for utilitechThe reason is that they're bright, small(ish), and cheap, and I need a lot of light(s), both for the yard itself, and for work areas, as it's getting harder for my eyes to focus on things I'm working on. I have a few ballasts to experiment with, one modern "dead" unit that I can open up and de-pot, a modern working one, another modern probably-working one (though it doens't light the fluorescent bulbs as brightly as one of the two really old kind do, but it does work with a pair of LED replacments), and a couple of really old ones in an ancient fixture that lights one of the sheds, not counting the modern ones in the five modern fixtures I have lights in that I'm using. Is there anyone here that has specific knowledge of these, or enough knowledge of ballast operation/etc., to help determine if I might be able to make a regular ballast run these things. I can't locate them again now, but I found a few that supposedly work with them, but are basically the same price as the whole fixture (more with shipping), and I can't be certain that they work. So far, the only ones I've found that I'm certain will work with them are the entire $40 (and up) "barn light" fixtures (which include the bulb.so I wouldn't need the separate ones). I havent' yet done the experiment to verify, but I probably will if there arent' any cheap solutions otherwise. I don't know that these are true, but they probably are. Perhaps if this is removed, I could then use the CFL with a regular ballast.but I haven't tested this yet (because this capacitor, from what I've found so far, is chosen to be tuned with the CFL tube, and the one already built into a typical ballast is not the right value for the CFL. So.Lowe's has a good deal on these 65w "4500 lumen" 6500k (bright blue-white) CFLs, at less than $3 each:īut they require a ballastd that is *not* a regular tube-style ballast, because of a "bypass capacitor" that's already built into the CFL base. EDIT: thread has mutated a bit into LED COB projects, as these are much cheaper than trying to work out a ballast solution for CFLs, starts a few posts down.
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