How To Wire A Fluorescent Light Ballast

Locate the ballast and follow the wires until you find the wire nuts caps that connect wires of the same color red to red etc.

How to wire a fluorescent light ballast. When your fluorescent light flickers or makes a loud and annoying hum a degrading ballast is the cause. And connect the matching colored wires with twist wire connectors. Connect the power and neutral wires to the corresponding ballast wires. Insert the led bulb and you got your economical led bulbs.

6 strip approximately 1 2 inch from the. Remove the magnetic ballast screw the electronic ballast into the fixture in the same place where the magnetic one was use wire nuts to connect the socket wires. Unscrew the wire nuts connecting the wires then separate the wires. Unscrew the screws securing the ballast to the light fixture then remove the ballast.

Instant start electronic ballasts use a high starting voltage about 600 volts to start very quickly less than 0 1 seconds. Notice how both the red and blue wires go to one lamp. The yellow wires are for lack of a better description are shared so pin 1 of lamp 1 and pin 1 of lamp 2 go one yellow wire. Complete this until all wires are cut or all wire nuts are removed.

Touch the remaining probe to the ends of the blue red and yellow wires leading from the ballast. Changing the wiring on a fluorescent light fixture from series to parallel involves changing the ballast from a series to a compatible parallel ballast. Here s a larger view of the wiring diagram. Ballasts have a wiring diagram to show how they connect to the lampholders.

The fluorescent fixture has now been converted to led light. Besides rewiring of fluorescent fixtures this is another method as for how to convert fluorescent fixture into the led. A wiring diagram is a streamlined standard pictorial representation of an electric circuit. If there are no wire nuts you will have to cut the wires about 12 inches 30 cm 300 mm from the center of the fixture on each side.

Mount the new ballast in the fixture. There are four basic types of fluorescent ballasts. Assortment of fluorescent ballast wiring diagram. Strip the electrical wiring back 1 2 in.

It reveals the components of the circuit as streamlined forms and the power and also signal links in between the gadgets. Series ballasts can only be wired in series according to the diagram on the ballast. Direct wire ballast bypass led tubes.