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Art Todesco

On 10/22/2018 11:18 AM, wrote:
On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 11:11:48 AM UTC-4, trader_4 wrote:
On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 11:02:19 AM UTC-4, wrote:
I was sold the wrong kind of tube lights at Home Depot. I asked for help and showed them my 32 watt 4 foot fluorescent tube that was burnt out and the guy sold me a 10 pack of LED tube lights.

I tried them in one of the fixtures and of course they did not work and now that fixture doesn't work. The other fixture is working fine. I got 4 brand new fluorescent tubes this morning.

I double checked and the bulbs in the bad fixture are good.

Could the LED bulbs had burnt out something in the fixture?

Thanks for any feedback on this.

I doubt the LEDs had anything to do with damaging the fixture. They draw
little power, more likely the fixture had a bad ballast or other problem.
Why not replace the whole fixture with an LED one?

or you could rewire the fixture to work with the LED bulbs, you may have to remove the ballast.

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If your new bulbs are the "ballast bypass" type, you need to remove the
ballast and wire power directly to the bulbs. Some bulbs are powered at
one end and some are powered H to one end and N to the other end.

As a side note, I just bought some ballast bypass LED tubes that can be
powered in any way. I would really like to see the schematic of the
inside LED driver to see how they do that, as the external wiring
diagram show just about every conceivable wiring configuration.