Paul Burton
Seedling
Tank is a Fluval Roma 240, supplied with fluorescent lighting. Decided to replace with LED lighting using Arcadia T8 LED bulbs (https://www.swelluk.com/freshwater-pro-t8-led-lamp/), which are designed to directly replace fluorescent T8 bulbs (and work with both magnetic & electronic ballasts).
The replacement bulbs work. But soon after fitting, I found the ballasts were running very hot, so much so that it's warping the plastic on the cover of the lighting, and the lights themselves cut out every so often as I assume the ballast is shutting down because it's overheating.
Not very happy leaving things like this, it's a fire risk apart from anything else - and also the setup is using as much power as it did before (LED bulbs should draw less power).
I'm struggling to find any technical information about these Arcadia T8 LED bulbs. I'd like to know if I can bypass the ballast and just directly wire them to the mains, but don't want to try anything like this without understanding what input's they're expecting! They've got 2 pins at each end, and I don't understand what each connection is meant to be for.
Anyone got any experience of these bulbs, or experienced this overheating issue?
Thanks
Paul.
The replacement bulbs work. But soon after fitting, I found the ballasts were running very hot, so much so that it's warping the plastic on the cover of the lighting, and the lights themselves cut out every so often as I assume the ballast is shutting down because it's overheating.
Not very happy leaving things like this, it's a fire risk apart from anything else - and also the setup is using as much power as it did before (LED bulbs should draw less power).
I'm struggling to find any technical information about these Arcadia T8 LED bulbs. I'd like to know if I can bypass the ballast and just directly wire them to the mains, but don't want to try anything like this without understanding what input's they're expecting! They've got 2 pins at each end, and I don't understand what each connection is meant to be for.
Anyone got any experience of these bulbs, or experienced this overheating issue?
Thanks
Paul.