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1. PES 4 LAMPS ELECTRONIC FLUORESCENT BALLAST CRACKED
2. PES 4 LAMPS ELECTRONIC FLUORESCENT BALLAST INSTALL
3. PES 4 LAMPS ELECTRONIC FLUORESCENT BALLAST FREE

This should free up the carboard backing to be removed and reveal the contact tabs inside. Try not to ruin or mangle the staple you will be reusing it. I used a small flat head screwdriver, wigle and pryed each corner. Once removed from the bar, you can pry the staple from the back on the tombstone. Here is where snaping a pic will help reinstall later. Pay close attention to what groves of the tombstone are in the slots on the bar. Start here by removing each tombstone from slots on the metal bar.

PES 4 LAMPS ELECTRONIC FLUORESCENT BALLAST CRACKED

I found that two of the old tombstone connectors were cracked so I will show how I replaced them also. Now that you have all the guts removed from the old fixture we can start to work on removing the old wire ends and resetting the old tombstones to be re-used with the new T8 electronic ballast.

this will all be getting removed to the next step.

You should see the remainder of the red, blue, yellow and maybe even a black linking wire running in and out of the connectors. Remove side metal bar by prying the slotted tab holding the bracket in place on both sides. 4 on each side connected to a metal bar that hold them into position. Than remove the 10mm nuts 1 holding each ballast in place, Note: They will be a bit heavy and if your on a ladder take care to slip off or drop one.Įach side of the fixture has 4 Blub plugs AKA "tombstone connectors" 8 in total. Cut out the Red, Blue and yellow wires near each ballast. Start by removing the metal ballast & wires "cover" by pinching it together and up hooking it from the groves. In this step we will be completely disassembling all of this light fixture down to leaving just the outer shell. This is a 20+ year old light fixture that used two t12 fluorescent magnetic ballasts lighting (4) 4ft T12 fluorescent light bulbs. Not real important in this project since we will be rebuilding the fixture.

PES 4 LAMPS ELECTRONIC FLUORESCENT BALLAST INSTALL

First start by of course turning off the power and disconnecting the black and white wires from your in coming power feed to the old fixture you could reinstall wire nuts on black and white power feed wires as to be able to turn power back on to the rest of the lights on that circuit or leave it off if your the forget full type and might not remember its on when you go to Install the new ballast.Īs with all projects, I like to start by snapping a few pictures of how the old fixture was laid out before starting to disassemble.