T8 LED bulbs

mercrazy

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FYI
i bought 4 GE t8 led bulbs. worked great with no modifications to my 30 year old light bases.
so i buy a box of 10 Phillips t8 led. they flickered and hummed like crazy.
thought it might be because i put them in different fixture.
they didn't have GE in box of 10, so i buy 2 more GE bulbs and they work great in same fixture.
beware of Phillips t8s.
 

Lynx_Arc

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I'm sure there have been several generations and designs of these LED tubes and it is possible the Philips is an earlier design. Some of these tubes are for circuits with ballasts, some without, and some that can work either way but I believe the ones that work either way in some designs may work better without a ballast and could possibly cause the ballasts to hum etc.
 
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