"F Murtz" wrote in message
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Michael Chare wrote:
On 07/11/2015 19:25, Nick wrote:
This afternoon I was after some LED tape with associated bits.
To make the order up for free postage I thought I'd order a couple of
T8 led
strip lights.
I looked at the instructions for installing these.
Not very illuminating.
https://www.led-supplies.com/downloa... arranty.pdf/


Last page (p3, right at the end) makes interesting viewing.
This is a supposedly reputable company in Reading, not Beijing.

Nick.


Step 3 shows how it should be wired.

You need to remove the starter (if fitted) and the ballast.



My Aldi ones just give you a special starter (which just has the pins
shorted) it works but it leaves the ballast in circuit which makes the
system slightly less efficient power wise.


That special starter is actually a fuse and would not work on the the type
of lamp the OP has bought. Your tube has the L&N driver at one end of the
tube (just like the OPs tube) however your tube has the pins on the opposite
end shorted together to complete the circuit - the OPs tube does not have
the pins at the opposite end shorted together, they are electrically
isolated and only serve to hold the lamp into place.

If you look at fig 1 with the inductive ballast you can see how the circuit
is completed by changing the starter for a fuse and that it would not matter
which way around your lamp was inserted.

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Adam