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Originally Posted by geeteeohguy

Yet another vote for LED's. I converted a friend's faulty fluorescent lamp to a ballast-eliminating LED 'Daylight' lamp (4 foot tubes) and it's like the sun shining in the room. Uses 30% less energy than ballast-type fluorescent tubes, and is more than twice as bright. No heat generated, either. Be sure to get the ballast-eliminating (bypass) tubes. The ones that advertise 'plug and play' with the original ballast suck....and have all the problems that ballast systems have. LED tubes have gotten downright cheap, too.

Agree about the conversion tubes with ballast intact suck. I tried them and they didn't last 6 months. I then started replacing my fluorescent fixtures a couple at a time getting the Feit brand from Costco as I previously posted and have all but one replaced at this time.


I saw the Rural King units, but I've stayed with the Costco/Feit ones so far.