fixerupper
Well-known Member
This has been hashed over before but I still have questions. Yesterday I picked up a couple of LED replacement tubes that work with the ballast still in place and working. How will this affect the life of the ballast? Shorter life? Longer life? I assume I will not experience as much energy savings with these tubes as I would with the tubes that require removing the ballast because the ballast will be using power too. These are 8 foot tubes that are replacing t12's. The amount of light the LED's put out is beyond comparison. The rest of the building with the Fluorescent T12's is dim compared to the area these tubes are lighting up. I got these at Menards and I didn't see the direct wired 8 foot LED's on the shelf but I thought I would buy a couple of these just to see if they really are brighter. At $64 per tube it is an expensive experiment for sure.