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Great viedo! I am a woman, 76 years of age. Your viedo was so clear and simple to understand! I can't believe I did it! Thank you so much, especially after watching so many other confusing videos.

Very helpful. Your camera angles and description of how to remove the cover over the ballast saved me time. I converted a kitchen fluorescent fixture to LED Hybrid Type A+B today, and everything worked very well. No one locally sells the kind of LED tubes you recommend in the videos. I checked Lowes, Home Depot, ACE, and BatteriesPlus. But when I talked to a clerk at a local light bulb specialty store, he had heard of these kinds of bulbs and respects the product. He called them Smart bulbs instead of hybrid. I ordered from amazon, and installation steps were straightforward, just as you explained. I don't normally do electrical DIY. I rewatched your video many times to make sure I understood the steps. Thank you!

I finally decided today was the day to give up my career as a professional procrastinator and tackle the flickering laundry room light. I had been determined to leave fluorescent behind and make the switch to LED. The LED bulbs I had ordered a couple of weeks ago were starting to gather dust in the corner so finally watched a few videos this morning and picked your video as my guide. Your instructions were perfect and I feel like I have a whole new fixture. Thanks for posting such great instructions.

Good God, you are the 4th ballast bypass video I've watched and you are the first one to show without over explaining that ALL of the wires on one end go to hot and ALL on the other end go to neutral. I realize now every other video was doing this but explaining way too much. My guy 👊🏻

I had seen another video on this conversion and it was so confusing I didnt even try. The method was different too. This just caused me to add this back onto my list. Thanks for your video!

Perfect !! You reinforced the exact way I envisioned it being done. Thank you so much. 😉😊

Fabulous! Can’t wait to do this over the washer/dryer! Side note. The second time you said “twist it clockwise” I was totally thinking “why would he make a point to turn it clockwise?”. Then, Bam! You totally explained it.

Jonny, once again, perfect timing. Have replaced every bulb in my house with an LED. Except the two big florescent fixtures in my laundry/mud room. Now those will be changed sooner thanks to your video. Didn't think to look for LED bulbs that would fit in existing fixtures. Have a great weekend and thanks again!

Just beware of one major item. There are two types of led replacement bulbs. One type like the one shown in the video, and another with a different wiring requirement. The other type only powers one end of the bulb, while the other tombstone is just a bulb holder. The bulbs are not interchangeable without rewiring the fixture to match the bulbs. Just pay attention to the directions on the package. Also, there are shunted and non shunted tombstones used. This style of bulb can use either,but the bulbs requiring wiring on one end only require non shunted tombstones, and usually come with the bulbs. I has converted over 1,200 bulbs at our church’s school and highly recommend LEDs

Great video and spot on with the instructions. I referenced the video as I replaced the lights in one of my bathrooms. Much appreciate the video and how-to instructions.

Always making it seem easy to do it ourselves, thank you 😊

Great video with the simplest explanation of how to install using by pass method I've seen! Thanks.

Thank you for your clear directions I did this to the two fluorescent fixtures in my closet. Using the LED Tubes in your links I found that I didn't need 4 tubes in each fixture like the original fixture had. With just 2 tubes per fixture I would say that I'm getting the same amount of light as I did when I moved into my house.

Thanks bro I converted mine with ease with your directions. The hardest part for me was stripping the wires lol . Thanks again and keep up the great content.

Totally helped me! If I’d known it was this simple I would have converted each fixture as the bulbs or ballast went years ago.

I knew nothing about converting Fluorescent lights to LED lights prior to watching this video. If this is all there is to it, you made it super easy to understand, and super easy for me to do. I see there is no need for me to hire an electrician to do, especially since I'm a DIY person myself. Thank you for explaining exactly what to do with all the wires, and how to bypass the ballast (seems very simple). Others watching this video and who have already done the conversion: * Is it really this easy??? * Is there nothing else that has to be added (equivalent of a new LED ballast, or similar) for the conversion? * Are there different type of LEDS bulbs (like with and without ballast)? What's best? Cheapest? Most energy efficient? Thank you all and Johnny DIY 🙂

I thank you very much! Followed your instructions and they worked great! Super bright! I have 2 more to convert in basement. I have 14 to do in garage. I'll wait for warmer weather,lol! Thank you. You got new sub 😊

Pretty straightforward video but I have one complaint. That tester you used to determine whether the fixture was still powered or not should have been tested with a known live electrical circuit before trusting that your ballast was truly unpowered. You can do this by just sticking the little tab on the end of the tester in the hot side of a known good receptacle to see if it sounds. Not testing that electrical tester prior to using it is a good way to get yourself seriously hurt if the tester batteries were dead or it was just not working.

Jonny, you have made this home improvement project look so easy!

Thanks Jonny - I have been sitting on LED bulbs J bought in Jan 2022… have been looking for LED ballasts for a long time. I guess I can’t find them because I don’t need them. Much appreciated.

Thank you for this excellent overview!

I was successfully able to remove the balast and add some frosted led tubes. Thank you so much!!!

Great tip!👍🏻

Excellent diy. All the info without hype.

Nice tutorial Good video with clear explanation I did this on a couple of older fixtures I didn't want to replace (yet)

What a difference over those old Fluorescent bulbs! 😎Needed!

Thanks to your video and explanation I was able to remove my ballast and replace the bulbs with LED. My wiring looked exactly like yours although I have 4 bulbs. Thanks.

Simple and precise. Thank you!

I have wondered how to do that but haven't been asked by anyone to do it. Very good presentation! Added benefit: that weird fluorescent mercury color is gone.

Good demo, thanks!

Jonny, thank you for this easy to follow video. I just completed the conversion to LED (Type B) bulbs in home garage. They look great!!

I use your video to help me swap my kitchen lights over to LED. Thanks for the video!

Excellent instructions. Thanks.

Thanks, I learned something new today! Great video because you explain the process and demonstrate very well.

Greetings from Tucson, Arizona.. Just subscribed - this is just the ticket for my garage.

This may have already been said, but their are two types of LED Tube replacement bulb, Type B (which is what is being used here) and Type A (commonly call Plug & Play) which you don't have to bypass the ballast. Simply remove the old tubes and put the new ones in. Note: if the ballast is bad then the Type A won't work. You would replace the ballast, in which case you can use Type A or bypass the ballast, as shown here, and use type B.

Great video, made the job easy to follow. Thanks for posting

WOW that looks easy! Hope it works out for me! I am gonna try it!

I wired it wrong the first time and they were flicking. Found your video, fixed my mistake, and now they work fine. Thanks!

It’s funny that two videos that did great are a before and after, this and the toilet video, i would keep doing that. I am going to try it for one of my solar videos,. I started using a new setup for diy videos, a GoPro, media mod, lume cube light, mini dead cat mic, plus DJI mic 2 lav on me. The audio is split right and left so i have two options int he edit. The light on the go pro really helps in dark tight places like this video.. love your stuff. Larry

Great explanation; thank you!

Thanks for a non-boring video. I am a retired electrician and did my can lights to Led but now the 4 tube garage florescent just went bad again. Looking into replacing and they want a fortune for a 4 lamp fixture, With your video I am going to retube to led, Thanks for a good video.

You did a great job explaining the process, thnx i feel more comfortable doing this job

I have LEDs over my pool table. My fixture is hard to get into. I used the plug 'n' play version 4ft bulbs. I can go back to fluorescent if I want to. At least now, I know how to wire them if the ballast ever goes bad. Thanks for the video. 💡

Nicely made video with good info and thanks for that. One small item - you didn't tighten your wire nuts enough, should continue to turn until the insulated portions of the wires twist together once or twice as well.

I had no idea this bypass method existed, but this worked like a charm at my house. Now we can see in our basement! The fixtures are recessed into a dropped ceiling, so I appreciated how simple this was.

Very Informative. Now I can save lights I thought where obsolete. Thank you.

Nicely explained. Many thanks.

Johnny, removing the balest is the best way. The direct to balast conversion still has the tubes taking that initial spike to start regular florescent tubes.

Nice! thanks, I always wondered how to do that. Clear, excellent video.

Well done and so easy to follow. Thanks

Thank you, good job!

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.

Nice video, and I'd always recommend getting the ones where you can bypass the ballast. Reason being that the ballast will eventually give way and fail. I think this might have happened to a few of the remaining fluorescent lamps at work, though I know some are just the starters (and bulbs) as the bulb was flickering, followed by going completely black at the end. Another failure is when the ends glow dimly - both of those are dead starters.

Thanks for the easy guide. I was able to convert mine to LED.

Great video! How do you change those white tombstone sockets? Do you have a video for that?

Thank you very much! -Mrs. Fixit

Thank you for the video. If the current fixture has shunted tombstones, do you also need to convert to non-shunted tombstones?

Thank you for the explanation.

Thanks for the great video ! Very well done. I was wondering how to link two 2 bulb light fixture together so they both operate off of one switch ? Do you have a video that covers this setup ?

Thank for the information and the Video

A great explainer video; thank you! Is there a less powerful LED bulb that works the same way? I installed this in a 4 socket fixture, and it was so bright we thought we were being beamed up!

Thank you for the video. God bless

I've been converting some of mine to LED. The wiring diags. in the package a pretty fehken simple. I've salvaged a couple of 40s era fixtures, got replament ends from AMZN as the bakelite ends were cracked. Also, just make sure to mark fixtures at to what they require if you are going to mod some over time.

This is going to be a game changer for our kitchen Thanks!!!

To the Point!Excellent

Ok he is working on a fairly new fixture, that little clip he shows guess what it can be easy to loose. The tombstones, the pieces the lights actually fit into over time become brown and brittle so you need to pay attention to those,plus the bulbs can be a tight fit outside of that the long run it is a better light and you don't need that ballast making it a win win

Good video. Thank you

Thank you . Great video.

I need to do this to the T12 bulbs we have in our unfinished basement. Thanks!

Dear sir, congratulations on the video. I have LGT8258B Preheating start electronic ballast. So far it has worked with 2 T8 2x58W neon tubes - without starter. Suddenly he started flashing and after 5/10 seconds he was dead. I bought 2 V-TAC LED tubes mod. VT-1577.T8.G13.20W I cut off the power supply on the requested side, after installing nothing to do they don't work. To see if the ballast is working, what voltage or current should I find in the output terminal block that powers the tubes? Thank you, thank you very much. Can you help me, thanks.

Very good video and explanation. But I noticed at 5:07 that one of the hot wires was either not up in the wire nut far enough or had too much insulation stripped off because there was still bare wire exposed.

Very nice instruction!

I've gone down a similar road. I recently replaced all my 4' T-12 fixtures w/ 4' LED integrated fixtures. 50000 hrs life for those fixtures which at 5hrs/day use translates to 27.4 yrs of life. That's long time without changing bulbs. 😎

good info thanks 🤠

good video and info....very to the point without telling your life story or how the light bulb was discovered 😊

Excellent Thanks so much ! I think I can do this myself and the daylight bulbs are the healthy ones right ?

Cool! Gonna do it!

I used WAGO connectors, it was super easy. First time I’ve used them instead of wire nuts. I used 6000K in the garage, but that’s too harsh in the kitchen so used 4000K in there. It’s good and bright but not too blue/white.

The energy difference between a T8 fluorescent and T8 LED is about a $1.50 per YEAR if used for 3hrs/day/everyday. When you factor in the much higher cost of LEDs, and the significantly higher failure rate, florescents are much more cost effective. But overall, I still prefect incandescents to LEDs because incandescent bulbs have no flicker, are made of glass and metal rather than plastic and computer chips, and are just easier on the eyes than LEDs.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, very simple video and very well explained. My question is: The conversion that you did it’s for regular fluorescent to type B led ? The led that I have said plug and play type A and they don’t work so I bypass the ballast and still nothing that’s why I think that I need a type B led. Do I’m wrong? Thanks for your response.

Nice Video. Just wondering why you chose to cut the incoming power wires to the ballast, rather than simply undoing the wire nuts? In my opinion you left 2 unnecessary wire nuts in your wiring.

Good info!

thx it works perfectly for me

A couple years ago I inherited my dad's airplane hanger/shop. Since not all the ballasts and tubes were working and most of the fixtures were 8' long, I looked into getting conversion kits to install 4' LED's. The units I ended up using were Type B, 5000K, 15 and 18 watts. These, like the above video eliminated the ballast. Unlike the above is I connected the red wires from the tombstones to the black 120VAC and the blue wires to the common of the 120VAC. Note here, this will only work on the older unshunted tombstones..Point I'm taking the long way around to make is check the wiring of the tube before doing what was done above. As for results, even though not all the old fixtures were working, when I finished installing the new tubes the current draw was about half and with the 5000K humans it was like being outside. Cost of conversion, the tubes were about $4/each and the kit to put 4 each 4' tubes in a 2 tube 8' fixture was about $20. I couldn't even replace a ballast for that. Conversion time per 8' fixture, about 1/2 hr. which included moving the ladder (ceiling is 15' high). Since then all the fluorescent tubes in the house have been changed to make being in the kitchen and laundry room so much nicer. The garage is next.

Thanks!!

Very informative Video

Thank you 😀

Hmm, I've just been replacing my florescent shop lights with LED fixtures when the tubes fail. I think I'll try his method on the rest of them. Since the ones in the garage are just plugged in, I can easily take them down and convert them on the bench instead.

I'd like to add or reinforce some points to undertaking such a project. It is not overly complicated but it will pay off in dividends to do your research first. I undertook such a project in a hotel I worked in and made some mistakes along the way. Fist off, the ballast transformers can get VERY HOT. They can get hot enough to cause serious burns if not careful. Second thing is one LED tube is usually quite sufficient to replace BOTH fluorescent tubes saving even more energy. Thirdly, get the LED tube that does not require the ballast as the ballast itself uses much of the electricity and producing heat. Because 110 volt circuits are usually wired with black and white I chose to gut the entire fixture except for the tombstones if they were in good condition. I completely rewired the fixture using only black and white wires with black being "hot" or load and white being the neutral.

Geat thanks!

For anyone complaining about LEDs not lasting long. It is true BUT notice the warranty says (usually) 10 years. The manufacturer hopes you don't notice this, soooo keep your receipts and take tham back like i do, they warranty it so it is up to us to hold them to their word.😊

What do the yellow wires do? Are they a ground wire or something. Excellent video.

Very Good!

Mine ( from toggle via home depot) lasted less than 1 year, home depot and toggle both refused warranty, not much saving there. Made zero change to hydro bill over 6 months, slighty brighter maybe.

Nice Video!!, can you tell the name on those 10" pliers?

Mine has 2 ballasts. On one end of each ballast is the red/blue but the other end of each ballast is a yellow/brown and green. (Not 2 yellows) do I just connect all of those to the white like u did??

This video was well done and informative. I wonder when the government will ban fluorescent bulbs in favor of LEDS. I also wonder who in government is getting a huge kickback from the LED manufacturers? Cheers!

What about the little starter. Do you remove those too?