How to Bypass a Ballast You may have seen this warning on our website before:“Ballast bypass installation required. To be installed by licensed electrician only.”While bypassing or removing a ballast from the power circuit in order to install LED lamps is easy to do, it is also fairly ea...
you need to do rewiring work to bypass the ballast in a lighting fixture. However, this is not nearly like replacing the complete lighting option. If you want to learn how to replace a fluorescent tube with an LED batten, you can reviewthisarticle by LED First ...
The tube just needs a voltage kick across the electrodes to establish an electrical arc. This kick is provided by the lamp's ballast, a special sort of transformer wired into the circuit. When the current flows through the bypass circuit, it establishes a magnetic field in part of the ...
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The ballast, starter switch and fluorescent bulb are all wired together in a simple circuit. Thissurgein current helps build the initial voltage needed to establish the electrical arc through the gas. Instead of flowing through the bypass circuit and jumping across the gap in the starter switch,...
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