You’d think a modern Tech Blog would discuss modern equipment but the reality is sometimes tech that is still laying around gets forgotten about and in some sense this blog is about an attempt to upgrade some old tech.
Back when I was a pup fluorescent lighting was everywhere. It was probably the most common way to light up larger spaces. If you got your hands on a 4′ long lighting fixture you were living large. My dad found a couple somewhere and painted them red, white, and blue and hung them in his office basement. I’ll never forget that horrific buzz.
Recently my wife and I bought a mid 1980’s country home and the back yard shed had two 4′ long fluorescent light fixtures in it. There were a couple of bad tubes in it and sometimes the lights would come on and sometimes they wouldn’t. Being the tech savvy dude that I am I decided to upgrade the old light tubes to LED’s with drop in replacements. Sounds easy, right?
It was not.
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