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Reusing CFL ballasts on linear lamps

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Uploaded by on Feb 12, 2011

A couple people have asked me how I wired a CFL ballast to operate a linear tube so I made this video and some drawings.

It depends on your particular bulb but it's just a matter of matching up which wire goes where on each end of the tube.

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  • I use a 20watt GE lamp base to drive a 18 watt T8 lamp in my study. The original lamp glass got broke so I decided to reuse the perfectly good base unit. Its good!

  • Household AC electricity doesn't matter which is neutral or positive because it alternates polarity at 60 times a second so it will work no matter which way you wire the power cord right?

  • I've taken apart some really old CFLs before and instead of a capacitor they had a relay.

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