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(August) What are you working on now, DIY? (beehaw.org)
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[–] Seathru@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also have to replace all the magnetic ballasts in the basement light fixtures with electronic ballasts because we have fluorescent replacement LED bulbs, which only work on electronic ballasts.

Chiming in because I just finished swapping over 15+ fixtures. You can get LED replacement bulbs that do away with the ballasts entirely. At first I went with the LED retrofit lights that used the existing ballasts but I still had issues with the ballasts failing (because they were all 20-30 years old). Found the "ballast bypass" replacements and swapped everything over.

The back yard garden is overgrown with weeds, and I need to deal with that. We didn’t do any gardening this year so nature took over… I don’t really have many if any tools to deal with it, so I need to do some garden supply shopping.

I'm embarrassed how much time and money I put into my garden this spring just to let the weeds take over. It's so hot out there.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I think in the short term we're going to try to make the electronic ballast lamps we already purchased work.... If we hit any issues, I'll look around for the bypass.

We only have 10? Bulbs, I think, and we have at least 8 fixtures, each taking two bulbs. So we'll have to buy more anyways, I'll probably get what you suggest for the remainder, and test them along side the direct ballast driven ones... Either way, thanks

[–] Seathru@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

They both work fine. I mainly meant if you were having to buy electronic ballasts to make the bulbs you have work, it may be cheaper to buy the bypass bulbs and do away with the ballasts. Same amount of work.