Sounds great. Zero regrets about the Home Depot version we bought though, since it's still significantly better than the old 8ft fluorescents, and it got us to turn the lights back on within about an hour without any rewiring. 

Patrik

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 3:15 PM, Jake <jake@spaz.org> wrote:

12:40 < Rab> jerkey_, I was greatly agitated by reading this: (link to this thread)
12:41 < Rab> Colleagues can't let colleages spend $45 on feeble Counterfeit Electric trash. This is the superior chocobo:
             https://www.ledmyplace.com/products/t8-8ft-v-shape-led-tube-60w-integrated-5000k-frosted
12:42 < Rab> It weighs three pounds, so you can just secure it to the existing fixture with zip ties if need be.
12:43 < Rab> I installed four of these at Jerry's last week.
13:03 <@amatus> the home depot one "can operate in existing fluorescent fixtures with ballasts"
13:03 <@amatus> if that's what's required...
13:05 < Rab> A flawed solution, for what would be an ill set of requirements.
13:06 <@amatus> just thought it should be mentioned
15:07 < jerkey_> rab send a damned email to the list

On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:

Note that Home Depot does have 8ft LED replacement bulbs
<https://www.homedepot.com/p/Feit-Electric-8-ft-T8-T12-75W-Equivalent-Cool-White-4100K-Linear-LED-Tube-Light-Bulb-T96-841-LED-RP/206036837>.

They're $45 - still a bit too expensive, but they should pay for themselves
within a year or two.

We have one in CCL, I think above the fermentation station. We're planning
to buy more of those as the fluorescents wear out, at least until such time
as we decide to swap out the light fixtures altogether...

Patrik

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Jake <jake@spaz.org> wrote:

Gerard went and grabbed two modern thin fluorescent tubes, and Matthew
replaced
the bad one, and he said he might swap also the bad one in the fixture
above
the laser cutter.

this was done using the freestanding ladder near the upstairs fridge.


On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, hol@gaskill.com wrote:

If we've exhausted the fluorescent consumables and there are still

fixtures elsewhere in the Omni that can use these lights, I'd love to start
working on LED conversion next tuesday.  We have a freestanding ladder that
can reach all those fixtures, right?

On 2018-07-12 20:34, Jake wrote:

are there any more working 8-foot-long fluorescent lightbulbs in omni?
one of
the ones in the northeast corner of sudoroom has stopped working (the
west one)
and the whole fixture is dark now.

of course we should migrate to another type of light in the future, but
i think
we should use up all the fluorescent lights before we do that.
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