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Home improvement
Mar. 8th, 2021 04:27 pmDuring these days of COVID-19 many people have been doing fixups around the house, myself included. My current project has been replacing fluorescent lights with modern more efficient LEDs. we had a total of four 48" fixtures that came with the house in the basement. They were originally wired to take the older larger bulbs and I rewired them years ago with newer ballasts to take the thinner T8 bulbs. It was time to replace those with LEDs. Two of the fixtures I replaced completely with new fixtures and two of the other fixtures I took the easy way out and replaced the bulbs with ballast capable LED bulbs. So far so good.
Now the final fixture I need to deal with has four 2' long bulbs with the old style tubes and ballast. Either I find something the same size to completely replace the fixture (PITA trust me) or simply remove the ballast and put in LED bypass ballast bulbs.
In the spirit of Buying local and not from Amazon I looked for a place that would sell and ship me the needed bulbs. I found a Canadian online store and managed to find what we needed and filled in the order form. NO IT HAS TO BE ALL IN UPPER CASE. Well, ok a bit ancient and sounds like they simply took their old backroom IBM 3270 terminal system and modified it for the web. Next type in phone number. DO NOT INSERT DASHES INTO NUMBER. Ok. Fine. Finally ordered and I sat back to wait so I could complete the project.
A week later I get an email. "Sorry the product you ordered is not in stock." I cancelled the order I guess I'll be ordering from Amazon after all.
Now the final fixture I need to deal with has four 2' long bulbs with the old style tubes and ballast. Either I find something the same size to completely replace the fixture (PITA trust me) or simply remove the ballast and put in LED bypass ballast bulbs.
In the spirit of Buying local and not from Amazon I looked for a place that would sell and ship me the needed bulbs. I found a Canadian online store and managed to find what we needed and filled in the order form. NO IT HAS TO BE ALL IN UPPER CASE. Well, ok a bit ancient and sounds like they simply took their old backroom IBM 3270 terminal system and modified it for the web. Next type in phone number. DO NOT INSERT DASHES INTO NUMBER. Ok. Fine. Finally ordered and I sat back to wait so I could complete the project.
A week later I get an email. "Sorry the product you ordered is not in stock." I cancelled the order I guess I'll be ordering from Amazon after all.
