T8 8FT LED Light Bulb Tube,Need Bypass Ballast, 65W,7800LM Clear Cover Single Pin FA8 Base Led Shop Lights Replace 150W Fluorescent Lamp Dual-Ended Power, Cool White 6000K, AC 85-277V 25 Pack

Easy to install. Solid quality. Excellent price from an excellent seller. What more could you ask for?

The lights are bright, light and easy to install. One of the lights thou works like Christmas light with blinkers. No sure if that’s how it should work.

These bulbs are great for a while. I bought four and only used them occasionally. I may have used them eighty hours at the most. They began failing a few months ago. Half the bulbs on all four finally failed. I wouldn't buy them again.

They are the best thing i have done in the shop in years. Lighting is way better they use much much less power. They did not require a ballast . That thing get super hot. Just wire them up with out it. so much better. You will love them. You can google how to do the wiring . the wire is in your light you need just a few wire nuts and do it. I had a ballast catch on fire it's hard to put out up high. These are much safer.

But these do put a decent amount of heat and are very warm to the touch after being on for only a short time. They are close to instant on but there is a noticeable delay. The angled model we installed is handy in that you can rotate it to illuminate dark areas of our low ceiling garage. There is a little sag in the 8' bulbs however in retrospect the clips are a waste of time and money. Would have been nice to ship the clips with the bulbs to avoid messing with the bulbs a 2nd time however since the box had enough room in it for 1000 clips. As to the install - if you have any electrical experience at all this is pretty simple install for a wall switch control fixture or fixtures. Power off. Cut ballast wires and remove the ballast. Connect the tombstone(s) at one end (doesn't matter which) to neutral (white), connect the tombstone(s) at the other end to line (black). If you have more than one fixture in series (controlled by the same wall switch) the process is the same for each. In my case I had 2 fixtures back to back with only one power feed so I recycled some of the wire I cut off to make a jumper from the tombstones at one end of the far fixture to reach the line (black). But the basic wiring diagram remains the same. Don't know how energy efficient they are since I have no way to meter the fixture but got tired of replacing fluorescent bulbs. We'll see how long they last. I like them enough to try them in 8 fixtures at one end of my shop to see how they hold up in a non climate controlled area. UPDATE 12/10/20 - just bought another 25 to replace a batch of cheaply made ones that were failing one after the other. These are quality bulbs and come carefully packaged in a sleeve and with a plastic cap over the pin that goes into the tombstone.

This is such an easy conversion the hard part is taking the lights down and putting them back up. I just did 18 8ft lights and my shop doesn't look like an old dirty garage anymore. My old High output cool white tubes looked yellow next to the new LED lights. Getting rid of the start ballast which is HEAVY and now will not have to be replaced when they die everything is a plus. Will I save enough to pay for the cost I'm Not sure but like I said I won't be buying anymore ballasts or tubes so figure that and the drop in electricity it's a win for me1/7/20 UPDATE The lights are still working great but they produce a problem that no one has mentioned in the reviews. I have a Lift Master commercial door opener on my garage door and after about a month it decided to not respond to the clicker from outside. The service company has been out 5 times and tried everything they can to overcome this problem. Bottom line is the LED lights cause interference with the electronics of the opener. This is not an isolated problem it happens a lot and I'm surprised I didn't see anything on here about it.My unit is 8 years old and in great shape and they are saying my only hope is to BUY a NEW Commercial unit the uses the 3 TIER transmitter to overcome the interference along with 5 new clickers and key pad for about $1200. and he is giving me a deal due to not getting it fixed right away. So what I may have saved on electricity in the future just went out the window forever IF this fixes the problem? So if your thinking of converting you may want to do more research? Too late for me.

These lights are perfect for my workshop and very easy to install. As far as installation, the package shows a small picture of how to install, however, it may not be enough information for the beginner. It's quite simple though. Once you remove the old bulbs and the cover you just have to disconnect the ballast wiring from both ends. There should be two wires on one end and two wires on the other. On mine there's a black and white on one end and a blue and red on the other. My wires were long enough so I only took the black wire and twisted it to the red. Then I took the white wire and twisted it to the blue. The important part is that no matter what your color wires are is that you connect one end from the sockets to the other. Once you do that you have to tuck everything inside the housing with the cover and you are done. Use wire nuts or wrap the connections with electrical tape. Most likely anyone who attempts this will have the experience of working with these type of connections. I have no idea how long these bulbs will last and that remains to be seen but the fact of not having to buy a ballast when they blow saves me about 80 bucks with just that alone. If the lights last two years, that would be great.

Initially very pleased. Now 2 years later there are two bulbs out of the eight purchase that have non-lighting halves of the light