This was so helpful. Thanks! I converted a kitchen fluorescent fixture to LED Hybrid Type A+B today, and everything worked very well. No one locally (in Arkansas) 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 was very straightforward. I don't normally do electrical DIY. I rewatched your video many times to make sure I understood the steps. Thanks again.

The shortest video gets right to the point. Thanks for keeping it short!

Thanks for this video, Chris! I watched your prior video (4 years old) first and I was wary of all the steps. But this video convinces me that I can do this conversion without too much difficulty (we shall see!!). The reason I need to convert is because my fluorescents do not work well (if at all) in cold temperatures (i.e., my garage workshop. Right now, it is in the 40s F and only 2 out of 4 fixtures work. I am buying LED bulbs tomorrow!! Thanks again.

I took the ballast out of both and they work fine. Thanks again for a great video.

Awesome that you showed all the combinations of what works together

Thanks for your time and interest. Ima go crazy converting these lamps.

CA resident here, your video is clear, easy to follow, and exactly what I needed, thanks!

Thank you! Very easy to understand. All the other videos had waaaay too much fluff; when it's very simple. One end hot - one end neutral...

I followed your instructions exactly, although mine had 2 wires each for the hot end rather than one in your video. No problem. I just connected them all together to the existing house black. Worked like a charm. Very simple! Thank you.

I like the way you jump into the topic and get us where we need to go. Great coverage of details such as the bare grounding wire, the looped tombstones and safety issues.

This was much cleaner and simpler than other videos. Thanks.

I just finished my first conversion; and can't believe how simple it was! I used Wago 221 connectors, and the job was amazingly easy. Thanks for the tutorial.

You gained another subscriber today. I came across dozens of videos for the same issue. Yours, by far, was the best one. Concise, clear instructions for dummies like me. Appreciate cha!

Thanks bud! Bypassed mine today for $40. A/B model GE T8 bulb. I appreciate the knowledge and information about getting this done 👍

I've been wanting to convert my lights for some time. After seeing this update I ordered a box of twenty. I found out that these are not plug and play for all fixtures. I rewired two so far and am very pleased with the results. Much more light than with the old fluorescent tubes. The price of each tube is in line with the cost of a standard fluorescent tube so these are a winner. Thanks for the update.

Just converted my garage lights, amazing difference! Used the double end method and it was a breeze. Thanks for the video.

I like your wire stripper. I use the Wago wire connectors. I don't use twist-type connectors at all anymore. They are much easier than I found very secure.

Very professional. No BS; simply an excellent How-to video.

I watched five other videos and was still confused on a few things. I wanted to do a double ended connection, but I wasn't sure if I needed to change the tombstones. I had checked mine and found they were shunted. I also wasn't sure whether to buy b-bulbs or the a+b bulbs. Thanks for clearing all that up.

Very helpful! Thank you!

Thanks you for the video. This made my retro fit easy. 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

Thank you for the video. I watched it several times before tackling my retrofitting project. Most of the lights were pretty straight forward. i came across a couple that were part of a 3 way switch. there was an extra wire (red) going along out of the ceiling with the neutral, hot and ground wire. i suspect that it is part of the wiring for the 3 way switching system. can you shed some light on what to do with this "extra" wire. My instinct was to group this red wire with the hot wire. it seems to work, but i want to make sure that i am not going to cause any long term issues.

Excellent video! No wasted time and clear instructions.

It's working! Thank you for your lesson

Great video... I stumbled across this, after I started converting my fluorescent tubes to LED, and ended up with problems. After watching your video, I believe my problem is the LED tubes I bought....my home depot only sells the philips universal fit, plug and play. I don't think they work without a ballast. I have removed the ballast, replaced the tombstones, and wired them for single ended power... I'm going to order the bulbs you recommend, and see if they work.

loved the video , been wanting to convert my garage lights to led and you made it look simple ,Thanks

I've watched other videos on how to do this project but yours made the most sense and made the project so easy. The others were so confusing. Thank you!

Thank you sir. Very clear and helpful instructions.

After removing the ballast & stripping the various blue wires, the 'new' attachments were on the very edge of the viewing screen. Since this is critical, it would have been helpful for this to be in clearer view. Thanks!

Double ended ballast bypass LED tubes are the best. They're simple to wire and you can't mess up wiring them.

What's your opinion on doing Type B single vs doubled ended? I just converted my fluorescent lights to Type B single ended and I love the brightness, efficiency, instant on and lack of ballast. So glad I did this!

Nice video, very informative. You should put a link to those wire strippers in your description.

What a great video, thanks!!!

Cool update. Thx. Hope this vid is as successful as the last. Here when 1400 views was the count. 12/31/2020.

Great video and a very simple process. I have a 4 tube (2 on each side) and 2 ballasts. I presume I can group like colored wires together and connect as you show. My fixture also has yellow wires. What do I do with them? Thanks!

This was a very helpful video. Thank you!!!

That was awesome and pretty simple

I have two fluorescent fixtures downstairs I want to convert to LED. This was a great video. This is no different than hanging a new light fixture. Once the fixture is converted do you typically mark which end is hot for the bulbs?

Just stumbled across your video. I didn’t realize how simple it was to convert the fixtures over to LED. Thanks for the info! You’re making me look really smart in front of my wife LOL 😂

I installed 4 set of the hybrid tubes in identical fixtures. They worked only for two months. When removing each old tube from the fixtures I notice one end of the reflector was lightly blackened. Today, I installed the type B tubes and removed the ballasts. Hopefully, these tubes will last a lot longer. Removing and rewiring around the ballast was simple.

Great advice! Some reflector are stainless steel but most at white. I used a black magic marker to mark (-) and (+) on the ends. Others may not be into electrical so I mark them for the next guy. I don't know how others do this, but I use zip backs for receipts, install papers that show part numbers and I. D. the bulb and part that come with the box end tab, etc. Then I file these in a drawer of my filing cabinet, next to dishwasher, ceiling fan, door locks. I don't call companies to fix or replace things the break at home or in car. Tons of insurance ads on TV make you remember that last time you had brakes done on a good car that you plan on keeping. Start a second savings account at your bank or credit union. Remember, banks are for profit so everything has a cost. With your second savings account, pay it $10 - $50 bucks and don't touch it. If you put $100 each month then in a year, you got $1,200 dollars sitting / for your car or truck. 2 years, $2,400 dollars, 5 years, 6,000 bucks. Change your oil when on sale, filter, watch UKposts and rotate your tires. There are all kind of service you can do over a weekend for most cars. It is cheaper and you get the satisfaction of doing it yourself. Plus you have $2,600 in the saving #3. Do it! DK, ASE Master Tech since 78, retired.

great video thanks

Very informative , thanks.

Will this work on commercial fixtures where the voltage can potentially be higher that that of a home's +/-120? Wasn't sure whether the ballast also acts as a voltage "regulator" and if so, would commercial voltage be too much for the bulbs... Or maybe that's not even an issue?? Great video... well thought out and presented!! Thank you.

Amazing video, very clear and instructive.

You changed my (garage) life! Thank you!

Thank you souch for explaining it so simply. What would you do to make these dimmable? Anything on yhis end needs to be done, ot jsut a dommable switch is enough?

Very helpful, thanks🙂

Thank you for the good video.

Not all T8 fixture lampholders (tombstones) are shunted.only the ones wired to instant start ballasts. Program Start T8 and all T12 rapid start ballasts require unshunted lampholders. It’s good to see there is a hybrid version of these T8 LED retrofit tubes available for use in line with ballast, wired direct to incoming power or single or double sided wiring for direct power. I agree that it is cleaner and more efficient to bypass the ballast in these fixtures since the ballas still draws Danton power when tubes are operated inline with ballast. I used to work for the US Navy and did hundreds of lighting retrofits in facilities. The Navy banned the use of these retrofit LED tubes in their facilities when I was there. Not sure if they still do. At one point I did a demonstration project in the office building I worked in, where we had three-lamp F32T8 fixtures, and retrofitted them down to two-lamp T8 LED tubes (bypassing ballast). I worked under these fixtures for a year and had no problems with the light levels. Energy consumption and fixture illumination output was recorded and analyzed.

Great help! Thanks!

Great work 👍👍👍

Are these leds dimmable? Thanks in advance

Are there similar leds for 8 foot long fixtures?

Good job & good speaker

Great update. Thanks. Now i feel like finally tackling this long overdue project. I need to replace several broken off tombstones though so let's see how that makes it harder to complete for me. They still need to be shunted tombstones if you keep the double ended style LED tubes even if your remove the ballast, correct?

very nice ! thanks for the info

Very helpful. Thanks.

Great vid, very thorough 👍

The one you've got is new type, got anything for the older magnetic type that are wired different???

I don't remember the brand of LED tubes I used, but they come with double ended pins. One set of tombstones has two blue wires and two red wires. These 4 wires get wire nuts on the black wire coming from the power cord. The other set of tombstones have three wires, consisting of 1 red, 1 blue, and 1 yellow. There is also a short yellow jumper next to the longer yellow that goes to the red wired tombstone. These 3 wires get tied to the white power wire, also called negative or neutral. By pass the ballast by removing it from the metal fixture and cutting the wires from it close to the ballast case. Wire nut the wires together as described, put in your LED tubes and you should have light. A tip: if you are only going to do one or two fixtures for now, and several others in 6 months or a year, take a piece of paper and make a simple wiring map or diagram so you won't forget and have to open up a previously wired fixture to see how it was done. The whole thing takes about 5 to 10 minutes.

Thank you! I was wondering if you can do this for the "U" shaped Flourescents?

Some questions, please. 1. In the conversion that you did in the video, can the type A+B bulb be inserted in either direction? It was sorta implied, but I never heard it said explicitly. 2. Aren't type B bulbs made specifically for fixtures with ballasts removed? So if I am going to remove the ballast, why not use them instead? (If you said why, I missed it). 3. If I got double-ended Type B tubes, can they be inserted in either direction? I assume so, but again, I'd like to hear it. 4. Finally, got any idea which way the wind is blowing? Be a shame to pick one (i.e. single end) and then have them go the way of Beta-max! Finally, thanks, this was extremely helpful and understandable.

I’m going to convert my garage fixtures to LED. I am a little concerned about running 120vac thru the old 12 DC wiring though. I’ll probably switch it over to a heavier gauge.

Great video but I just have a clarification question: the blue wires are being connected to the black (HOT) correct, and the red wire is being connected to the white (NEUTRAL), correct. The angles of your shot block the actual wire colors.

great video.

I replaced my fluorescent lamps with single ended ballast free tubes. It didn't require any new parts. The far end tombstones are simply bypassed too and are only for support. That is the simplest solution in the long run.

This looks easy enough. Would this be the same thing I would do for an old fluorescent bar light?

Hello, I recently changed my recessed lighting (CFL) to retrofit LED (6") and I'm just wondering because the last video, the vlogger was saying "Blue always goes to the White and Black always goes to the red." In this video you connected Blue to Black and Red to White. By the way, I love your wire stripper. Thanks for this video. Much appreciated.

Well done tutorial. I am intending to convert my garage overhead flo's to led. Ballast are junk anyway. what's the best way to search for an led equivalent for a T8 4100K 32 watt 3000 Lumen equivalent? (if one even exists)

Great video. Just what i was looking for. BUT can you connect this system to a DIMMER switch? My fluorescent light is in the kitchen and I’d like to dim it when we’re having dinner. Any other light fixtures won’t supply the brightness we need in the kitchen. Thanks

Thank you, clear explanation

Great video. Thank you!

Hi, your Amazon link to the specific bulb you are using is not showing up. What brand are the bulbs? Thanks!

As I am watching your video, I've been going to my light and checking everything step by step. However, my light fixture has 2 yellow wires, and there is no yellow in your fixture. I didn't see this addressed in any other question. Could you please address what to do with the yellow wires?

Do you have any recommendations for single pin 8 footers? What ones to buy?

your video is very inspirational, I think I would like to try conversion. But I have 3 line of lights, but each line should be wired the same (they look the same) But each line is 2 sections of 4 lights. I'm wondering will this be different wiring than you show in your video. And if so, do you have a video showing that wiring ?

Is the end with the daisy chained wires a shunted or non shunted system? Thanks for the easy to understand video.

This is worth to watch, thanks man ..

Ok, you just changed my mind. This looks very doable even in a short time frame. Thank you. edit to add: ok, I apparently have t12 so I'm looking at a bigger project again. 😮‍💨 I can't seem to find t12 led bulbs as it looks like t12 was starting to be phased out in 2013? The amount of crazy bulb-specific fixtures in this house we bought is just non-stop.

Is the startup time much faster than the old fluorescent tubes? I have old fluorescent fixtures where the startup time is about 2 to 3 seconds, which is annoyingly slow, especially with motion switched lights. Shouldn’t you also label which side has the hot connectors and which has the neutral connectors? Maybe the fixture also needs to be labeled that it's wired for the connections on both sides of the tube, not just one side of the tube.

I have 8’ fixtures, do they make these type of bulbs to fit 8’ fixtures? If so, which one do you recommend?

Wow, that looked easy to me, someone who generally doesn't even try to deal with electrical items.

My fixtures are 4 tube with 2 ballasts. How do I join the correct wires when I bypass or remove the ballasts?

Very useful video

What about tube lights that have drivers which led can we use to bypass the ballast but still use the emergency driver

brilliant!

Very good thanks😎

I'm confused. Wouldn't the modification that you made be appropriate for Type B (double ended connection) LED tubes? Why do you recommend Type A+B Hybrid for this modification?

Thanks for making this video. I removed the ballast from my fixture and re wired it the way you described. Black power wire to one tombstone at one end and white to the other tombstone. I tested with a multimeter and can confirm that I have 120v from one end of each tombstone to the other however I get no light when I installed a universal Type A Linear LED Bulb. I know the bulb is good because I also tried installing it in a different fixture which does have a working ballast. Do some Type A LED’s require a ballast? I wouldn’t think so, but I’m at a loss for what the issue could be?

Great video . How is it done with a 8 ft fixture that uses 4 4ft bulbs?

You have great videos and instruction style. I have been looking for instructional videos on converting fluorescent 2D bulb floor lamp to LED. Do you have any videos to help with this? My lamp uses a SP-120-1/55D GR10Q-4 and I can't seem to find details on how to do this.

My fluorescent lamps are set up with emergency ballasts. Is this convertible to LED as well? Also, I believe one emergency ballast is bad. Any videos on replacing them? Thanks

Afternoon, I’m attempting to convert the fluorescent lighting in my house to LED lighting because the ballast throughout the house are not performing. I have attempted a ballast by-pass because I want to get rid of all of them and learned an incompatibility between my bulbs and my wiring methods. I used a GE- Savant Type A bulb with a ballast by-pass to learn the output of these bulbs are much lower than expected. What would you recommend compatible bulbs and light fixtures. Ballast by-pass is my preferred method because I am led to believe that I will eliminate a future repair! Thank you

Do you have to use a+b tubes with this wire conversion? Or can you still use type b lightbulbs?

Your video will help me a lot. I need to change under the kitchen cabinet tubes to LED. The existing tubes are F30T12, 30 W. I plan to remove the ballsts in all three fixtures. Where can I buy T12 LEDs. I only see T8 LEDs,

So I have a 2 bulb florescent light. So I can just change out the bulbs to led as long as they're A&B type led? Or I can pull it apart take the ballast out, the way you described, and just buy the same type led A&B? Can I get those types of bulbs at ho e depot or Lowe's? Get video

Any recommendations for 8 foot options for this? Thanks

soo complicated, and convoluted!

GREAT!!!!!!! Thanks.