Got this fixture for the laundry room. It's a 2' wrap, 2x17w T8. Surprisingly it was less expensive than the 1-lamp 17w T8 closet fixture I recently bought.
I bought one of these. It's a piece of trash. I sudgest buying a Utilitech version at Lowe's made by American Fluorescent for the same price. It's much better built and will still light one lamp if the other goes bad.
I remember before these showed up, the Lithonia 2' wraparounds were much better built...they had a swingout diffuser, a full ballast cover, and a real ballast (I think a Advance or Universal 2XF20 trigger start) inside.
I think their commercial grade stuff is still good, but this is just a retail/residential grade light. I wouldn't even call this a wrap light since the diffuser technically doesn't "wrap" around the fixture; it just lays in with gravity to hold it in place.
How is it held in then? Do you remove the endplate to take the diffuser off?
Joseph, what do you mean by a "Swing-Out" diffuser? Like on a regular wrap light where you push it up, slide it to one side and let it hang down to change tubes?
no. To remove it you push the basket diffuser to one endand lift up the other and it's able to be removed. You can also poke it with a pole if it's mounted and the diffuer will fall if you do it right. I did that to mine sometimes lol. I always caught the diffuser though so it wouldn't break.
Yeah it's that style. BTW I also fixed the spelling of my name in your comment...
I recently got a wall bracket style wraparound (the style with the ballast behind the lamps) and that has a diffuser held on with spring loaded endplates.
feel free to fix any name-butchering
So admins can edit comments? I never knew that...guess I'm technology-ignorant
As for your new wraparound, when you say "ballast behind the lamps" do you mean like a normal one where the ballast is behind but between the lamps?
Even though the diffuser is held on differently, does it pretty much look the same as a regular wraparound?
yep as far as i know, admins have access to anything you have access too ie deleting and editing comments, posts, pictures, and such but not personal stuff such as editing your profile or anything like that. i'm not an admin though so i don't know what they can don lol. Jace, Vince, and Ian managed to change their usernames though.
And yeah i burned though a lamp about once every 4 months and the light was hardly used. It was frequently switched, though it was off way more than it was on. We'd turn it on for about a minute to check the water bucket under the gas water heater. (it used to drip water. Turns out the water pressure coming into the house was too high and the water heater lost its seal around 10:30 PM on night. We now have a GE water heater about 1/3 larger than the old one.) Now i use the T12s and the lamps aren't even blackened. I'm pretty confident when i move out the lamps will still work lol. both the RS and preheat shoplite are frequently switched. BTW, i installed the VAL-MONT ballast in my RS fixture and removed the universal ballast to eliminate any PCB risk since the light is on for long amounts of time sometimes now that i have some of my stuff stored in there.
@Andy, I guessed you sorta skimmed though my comments again It's basically this type...
And yeah the admin account has a lot more access. Like Mike said I can edit and delete comments (also users ). I can also edit your profiles too so if you want your username changed I can do it. And if you're bad I can change your avatar to a Durastar.
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Joseph, what do you mean by a "Swing-Out" diffuser? Like on a regular wrap light where you push it up, slide it to one side and let it hang down to change tubes?
Sounds like you burned through tubes like crazy in yours...
I recently got a wall bracket style wraparound (the style with the ballast behind the lamps) and that has a diffuser held on with spring loaded endplates.
So admins can edit comments? I never knew that...guess I'm technology-ignorant
As for your new wraparound, when you say "ballast behind the lamps" do you mean like a normal one where the ballast is behind but between the lamps?
Even though the diffuser is held on differently, does it pretty much look the same as a regular wraparound?
And yeah i burned though a lamp about once every 4 months and the light was hardly used. It was frequently switched, though it was off way more than it was on. We'd turn it on for about a minute to check the water bucket under the gas water heater. (it used to drip water. Turns out the water pressure coming into the house was too high and the water heater lost its seal around 10:30 PM on night. We now have a GE water heater about 1/3 larger than the old one.) Now i use the T12s and the lamps aren't even blackened. I'm pretty confident when i move out the lamps will still work lol. both the RS and preheat shoplite are frequently switched. BTW, i installed the VAL-MONT ballast in my RS fixture and removed the universal ballast to eliminate any PCB risk since the light is on for long amounts of time sometimes now that i have some of my stuff stored in there.
And yeah the admin account has a lot more access. Like Mike said I can edit and delete comments (also users