Originally Posted by
Jim Andrew
I can imagine how you feel after a day of working on these fixtures. Did the changeover on one of the fixtures, and it actually worked! But I did it upside down on the bench. Plugged the white and black wire into a cord to test it, and it worked great, only it took a little while to warm up and get the tubes to putting out light evenly. The centers took a while. How hot do the electronic ballasts get? They were getting warm after about 15 minutes. Also, do the recycling yards take the old ballasts? And, the wiring diagram on the Sylvania ballasts used all the wires, no need to pull any out.
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