My Uncle had a patch on one eye and when he would finish showing us how to do something he would say "You should be able to do it in half the time since you have two eyes!" He was a great man and would be proud of this video you produced! Thank you.

This was very helpful. Thanks! And when I dropped a screw on the floor, I remembered you saying, "we always have to drop something on the floor!" And I smiled instead of getting annoyed about it.

You must kill the breaker, or it will kill you. 👏 Glad to still have you around, Mr. Tim!

I’ve needed to replace the ballast now for a little while and watched your video just to refresh thank you. Love the speaking French and calling it Spanish 😂! Good video

Just chiming in - I needed to change my closet lights and the ballast was bad. Your tutorial got me through it. I really appreciate you!

I didn't realize mick foley was such a handyman, thank you.

I super appreciate this video because I just needed to know how to get the fluorescent light housing kit open. thanks for showing all the details because it allowed me to go up to the part of my similar project that I needed.

This is a very informative and helpful video!! I was extremely intimidated when I saw the ballast. now I think I have the confidence to pull this task off!! Thanks!!

Great Job! Easy to understand for beginner but also some advanced tricks of the trade. Thanks for your time and sharing your knowledge.

I sure do appreciate you for doing this. You make it so I can follow along. God bless you for caring.😊

Thank you. We have a kitchen light out bought new light but they don't work. I didn't want to pay someone money when I knew I could figure it out myself. Thanks for the tips have a great day my Friend

Who lives in a pineapple under the Sea?... The Ballasts in our kitchen finally "Walked the plank" after 20 years! They certainly served their purpose. Thank you for the great video. May the "Wind be in your sails" my friend. Doing it myself saved me some Doubloons. 🌞

Thanks. I just had to replace the bulb and you helped me.

Thank you for this video! Super helpful!

Thank you for the video! Very helpful!

Great video. My bulbs stopped working today. I hope it is just the bulbs but feel after your great explaination I can handle the job if it is the ballast. I hope it is just bulbs though. I know like you I will drop something on the floor because I usually do. I was glad to learn I am not alone. Thanks so much for the video.

Hey Pirate-this is the video I needed - love the step-by-step. ! Light is back working down in the workshop. Keep the videos coming!

Excellent instructions! I was lucky and the light was horizontal on the wall above the bathroom mirror. Disconnect the hot and neutral wires, pull two screws holding the light fixture to the wall, and I was able to take the fixture out to my den and change out the ballast on an old TV tray. Reversed the process, turned on the breaker, and I have light again in my bathroom, the first time in a week. BTW, the light had been flickering for a few days. I shut down the light with the switch, and when I turned it on again, there was a noise like a gunshot and the smell of overheated electrical components, at which time i turned off the breaker. So a ballast can go quietly, but sometimes it goes out with a bang!

Hey, thanks so much for this video. This was way easier than I thought it would be thanks to your tutorial.

"And drop that on the floor..." story of my life, brotha! Thanks for the help.

Really glad to have found this channel

Awesome video. Changed my Ballist with ease after watching your video 👌🏽✅

Great video, Thank you!!

Hey there, thank you for your very detailed and instructional video. I have to install a couple ballasts tomorrow at my job and have never installed one before Ill subscribe and check out more of your videos

Brother, this was a fantastic tutorial!! Thank you

Thanks for posting. Explained a mystery.

Excellent information thank you

Thanks Perfect example!

Thanks so much man your explanation is very simple and i got the idea

You're awesome. Thanks.

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Thank You so much!!!

Best video, thank you brotha !!

“And drop that on the floor…”. Laughed at that - so true!

Thank you so much! This isn't as hard as I think!!!

Yarrr! U just saved me a ton of wasted ton and money mate! Thank U :)

Great video, perhaps you can do a video on replacement & installation attic stairs.

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I love it step by step, Thank you

Thanks! Saved me some bucks!

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Thanks a million! Saved me $400 or so.

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Nice video! Does it matter which blue wire on the ballast goes to which blue wire on the fixture? Same for yellow and red wires...does it matter?

Very well presented overall...but I agree with an earlier commenter's sentiment, it would have been a good idea to mention shutting off the circuit breaker to the light fixture earlier, before you start monkeying with the wires inside. It would also be useful to show how to use a non-contact voltage tester to insure the circuit is actually off. If someone doesn't know which breaker the fixture is on, and nothing else is on that breaker, they will have no other way of safely telling if the power has been shut off.

Getting there...self made uv cure light with tripod mount. G24q connection mounted on & a socket adapter for a E26 fluorescent bulb.

Thanks for this video. I am trying to do some simple general maintenance at my job and these videos are a big help. However, I have one question. There seems to be two blue wires on these things. How will I know which blue wire from the fixtures to connect to what blue wire the ballast?

Can you do a huge favor? Can you show us / me how to replace a bathroom ceiling fan vent! I had a guy leave me hanging he started and never completed the job. It's literally hanging I stuffed it back up until I can fix it myself. I'm pretty sure I can do it. I know you can walk me through it. Thank you ! ❤️

Thanks for this! Does it matter which blue wire goes to another or each blue wire has to be hooked up to a certain blue wire?

Thanks

Love this video bro.....just one thing for safety. Make sure people know to shut off the light switch and main breaker first so they don't get shocked!!! Because what if its not actually a bad ballast and energy is still flowing into it when they try to handle the wires....just saying.....

When the wire nuts are removed from the old ballast, good practice is to clip the twisted ends of the wires and then strip them so that they have straight bare ends that are about the same length as the straight stripped ends of the wires from the new ballast. Then twist the wire nut until there are a few turns of the insulated wire just behind the wire nut. You want to do this so that the spring in the wire nut twists together the bare ends inside. This is especially important for the black and white lines where you're tying together three conductors. One of the common causes of failures and even fires is arcing inside the wire nut because the conductors are not fully twisted together.

Good video. What size caps "nuts" are you using?

Thanks for the video. It really helped. The nuts had electrical tape on it when I took them off though. I just put them back on without it. Is electrical tape really required though?

I have a flourescent light in my garage that doesn’t like to work when it rains but does when it’s dry. Do you think changing the ballast will fix this?

Got a T5 fixture in my bathroom mirror that's been bad for almost a decade now. Finally decided to buy myself a new ballast and gonna give it a go when it comes time to changing. Dang shops in Switzerland sure don't make it easy to find the right one though. Also didn't help that the SIS214A that came with the unit doesn't have replacements on the market available for purchase, so had to go with a Philips HF-P 2 14-35 TL5 HE III 220-240V - knowing that my unit is a 2x14W T5 fixture which takes HE 14W/840 bulbs. First tried replacing the Philips T5 bulbs when they both stopped working simultaneously, but I guess I didn't even need to do that because what are the chances both would burn out simultaneously? 😂

Is there an order to the blue to blues and red to reds or can you just place any of them together?

Very excellent video and helpful, but the question to be raised is it necessary to switch off the power from the circuit breaker because I changed the ballast after I switched off the light switch, followed by circuit tester to confirm there's no power?

Vee-Oh-La Pirate Handy man 👍😁

What if this is in a office setting can i just turn the light switch off and replace the ballast or will I need to completely turn off the power via breaker

Hey I can't disconnect the power by flipping the breaker I work in a office building first time maintenance guy here if I just flip the light switch off will that still kill the power without risk of electricity killing me?

which numbers on the ballast am I supposed to match up? The old one has model number, volts, amps, lamp type, hertz, ocv?, and it has a manufacture code. The new one for sale has a lower OCV and slightly 0.1 higher amps. The new one wires in parallel, the old one is series so it only had two wires.

We have several lights that are behind opaque plastic in the kitchen. Some of the lights come on and off, and some of them are dim. I’ve tried replacing the bulbs and there’s still an issue. Can a bad ballast cause lights to be dim or intermittent? I’ve pulled the removable opaque plastic away and I’ve tried turning the bulbs and they come on. If I turn the light off and wait an hour and turn it back on, it doesn’t light again or it’s dim. Is that typically a bad ballast something else?

If Mick Foley was an electrician. This is awesome.

Q: What if the wire from the original ballast run continuously (no connectors) from the ballast to the end of the bulb housing / fixture? Cut them, connect them per the video?

Can I take out a fluorescent light and switch? It was something more modern. This is in a kitchen in a mobile home we bought. There is a sign on the light that I took out that says use P type only does that mean to put something different and I need to change wires

Awsome brrooo!

What happens if you use a different ballast in the same fixture?

Sorry if this question has an obvious answer, but when you are reconnecting the wires (red to red, blue to blue, etc.) does it matter which red from the ballast goes to which red from the fixture? Or do they just need to be any of the same colour?

I got a light for free that didn't come with a ballast, so I need to buy one. But is there anything I need to know bf I go out and buy one? I hv no wiring diagrams or nothin!! Will the info on the light such as the brand and part number help? Thx.

'et voila' we say that in .. France :-)

how do you know if it is the ballast or if its the little tombstones?

I have one tip from an electrician might wanna mention turning your switch off and or breaker 😂 nvm I was too early to judge

Lifespan of ballast 30 years for classic magnetic version (with starter) but only 10 years for electronic

does it matter which red or which blue wire is used to connect to the ballast ?

So match all the colors Blue-Blue, Red-Red, etc?

Lol your clock said 3:17 then at the end said 4 til 12 . So something didn't add up although the work you did was very accurate. Just interesting to see. You are pretty awesome ,so don't think I was saying anything negative. Just funny when you said 45 mins right in front of the clock which said nuh uh 😂

are all ballast wires yellow, blue, red, blk, white ?

The electricians install lighting with the power hot, I cannot cut the power to fix one light. Any suggestions for doing this hot?

Im in the middle of changing a two ballast fixture. The numbers matched, but im off to return the new ballast I picked up because the wiring diagram is different. Dont be like me, confirm they match first before you leave the hardware store.

I have a fluorescent light that had the ballast (electronic) fail, I replaced it with a magnetic

Viola! Or voila whatever they say in Spain 💪

Hi Pirate, how do I know which blue connect to which blue? or it doesn't matter ? Thank you.

Thank I wouldve forgotten to drop something on the floor! LoL

I wish KZfaq allowed photos. My Ballast doesn’t have a number on it. It has a white Ignition in the fixture. I replaced it and it still will not light. How do I replace the Ballast if it doesn’t have a number on it? Starring and Company INC is no longer in existence I guess. It says Bridgeport, Conn. but couldn’t find a listing. I would appreciate any advice Please?

how do you replace light flouscent light

There was a thunderstorm today and then the 2nd lightning caused the power to trip. When i reset it back it tripped again. Then i isolated the power switches one by one until i discovered a fluorescent light was causing the power trip. Each time i switched it on the power tripped. Tried changing the fluorescent bulb but it didnt help. Could it be the ballast that is causing this problem? Appreciate anyone’s inputs. Thanks a lot.

Mine has four bulbs and two ballasts. Would it be easier for me to stick with two two-bulb ballasts, or go to a single four-bulb?

Made me laugh with “and then we drop that on the floor”

I need replace 8 ft ballast which doesn’t have yellow wire.

Easiest way is to unscrew the old one,let it hang with the wires still installed...screw in the new one,and you've got the old one hanging in front of you as a guide to show exactly what to do with the one above you 😁

the problem I'm having is the new wire diagram doesn't match up to the old magnetic ballast wiring.

Take a picture of the old wiring great referance

Nicel

Why did you not thread the new ballast wires into the end lamp "socket"? In other words, remove the red and blue wires from the end lamp socket and connect the new ballast wires directly to the socket?

Yellow to yellow wires separated?