LED tube replacement

[Harry Bloomfield]

don't have a smart phone - they're just for cabbages

I might have been of the same opinion, in the distant past, and I bought one to see how useful they are, for things other than just the basics, of making phone calls. For instance - I have to do regular home BP readings, for my GP, and hospital consultant. My BP monitor automatically bluetooths it's reading, straight across to my phone. I have all my credit and debit cards on the phone, secured via facial recognition, so I no longer need to carry any cash around.

 

[ChupaRain]

I just removed the starter and bypassed the ballast by wiring live to one end and neutral to the other; sorted it in ten minutes and everything fired up fine.

 

[EFLImpudence]

We generally don't want our work to fire up.

 

[ChupaRain]

I just removed the starter and bypassed the ballast by wiring live to one end and neutral to the other; sorted it in ten minutes and everything fired up fine.

I had a similar setup and just swapped the tubes with LED ones, bypassing the ballast like others mentioned. The whole thing lit up fine after that, no flicker. I did this for my garage first, then did something similar with wall lights in a hallway—just had to check how they were wired before messing with them. Swapping tubes isn't too tricky once you figure out the wiring layout.