Retrofit LED

[wireday]

Customer,office building wants to retrofit 3 bulb t8 over to LED using new ballast, After ,they will be removing a LED or two where its considered to be to bright?
will that open circuit be ok on the ballast.

 

[roger]

Why not use by pass lamps?

 

[Little Bill]

Why not use by pass lamps?

That was going to be my question. IMO, leaving the ballast defeats the purpose in changing to LED. You still have to deal with ballast replacement when it fails. With the bypass type tubes, all you have to do is replace them when they fail. Also, you can have as many tubes lit as you want, and leave tubes out if you like.

 

[TealHeals]

Some of the LEDs will let you select the color temperature. I've done several ballast bypass upgrades here and the office dwellers like them.

 

[Joethemechanic]

Actually unless the fixture is something special, new led fixtures are pretty cheap. Not sure how you control the lighting there but something dimmable sounds like a lot less work than removing a tube every time some one wants the light level different