All you need to know about LED Tube Lights and Before its Installation Process

No doubt! In the past several years LED lighting has been upgraded drastically, and millions of LED Tubes have been installed all over the US. Still, the tube is undergone many changes throughout a very short period of time and by the time surely we can expect more advancement.

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As a consumer, you required a high-quality LED Tube, which has been able to reduce the cost and improve the light output. In this article, we’ll cover how you can choose the right LED Tube for your application.

1. Understanding the Size of LED Tubes

In the past, if you ever purchased LED Tubes or heard about them. Then you know that these LED Tubes are commonly sized with a label “T’’ and followed by a number (I.E T5 or T8). The term “T” stands for “tabular” or “tube” consider the shape of the size and the number stands for the diameter of the tube in eight of an inch.

The things you must know in general, that the narrower of the diameter the more efficiently it will be. Further, commonly the narrower tube will also be more expensive in comparison to others.

Nowadays, T8 led tubes are considered the most common standard tube lights and most preferred in office lighting and residential areas. While T5 is considered the most efficient tube lights amongst all, especially in areas you required high-quality lighting.

One thing you consider, that the variant of size doesn’t mean you need a different fixture for installation, while most of the fixture using the similar bi-pin base. But you might consider the ballast compatibility of the tube, that we talk about below.

2. Compatibility of LED Tubes

As an incandescent tube or fluorescent tubes required the ballast fixture for installation, but this is not the case with these LED Tubes. Therefore, there are three variants type of tubes are available in the market today.

3. Ballast Compatible

As you can understand by the name, these tubes are designed to work in the same fixture, in which fluorescent tube does. Means, if you want to install LED tubes at your place then you don’t have to replace the fixture.

Further, you can install them in your existing ballast fixtures, which ease the installation and saves time and money as well. It directly replaces your tubes and brings the utmost illumination at your area, that’s why these tubes are also termed as Direct Replacement LED Tube.

4. Ballast Bypass

The earliest LED Tube was introduced were ballast bypass. While these tubes wouldn't work on a ballast fixture and if you are having ballast fixture, then first you need to bypass and connect the wire to the main power supply.

Earlier, these tubes are available in both single-ended and double-ended power, but by the time the industry migrated to the single-ended due to safety and standardization concerns. For the single-pin, you need to plug a non-shunted tombstone socket, to supply the voltage in the socket.

5. LED Wattage VS Lumens Output

In the era of incandescent and fluorescent, It’s acknowledged that higher wattage the high lumens output. Well, this principle isn’t to change in LEDs and may you see in new led tubes, they provide lumens output instead of wattage input.

The reason behind this, that the LED require a very small amount of wattage input, to provide the same level of illumination as fluorescent tubes do.

The difference between wattage is so minor, you might get confuse. By this chart down below it will easy to understand you.

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6. Hybrid Tubes

We can call them the most versatile LED tubes amongst all. Yes!! Because these hybrid tubes are compatible with both ballast and without ballast fixture.

Makes the installation easy and convenient for the consumer. While this hybrid tube does not compromise with illumination and offers you high-quality brightness at your surroundings.

Final Thoughts

As we told, you, in the beginning, we cover some major points that you should concern before installing these LED tubes. We hope this information will help you in the future and if you are having any further information about these tubes.

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