Don't worry. Best engineers worked hard to make sure that lamp burn out 2 months after warranty ends. So, every 1 or 2 years (if you choose fancy ones) they would remind you about themselves. It's first generation of led and fluorescent lamps worked decades, but in 5 years they optimised manufacturing processes to guarantee constant demand.
The way those fluorescent tubes work is that on the opposite sides there are two contacts that power two little incandescent lights on both ends, they are needed to heat up the electrodes and facilitate flow of current when the tube is starting up with high voltage, once the starting sequence is completed the two lights are no longer powered and current only flows across the tube. Also the L and N labels on the LED replacement are kind of useless and you could have just put it in there after removing the starter (that weird component with two contacts).
There must be some confusion 3:16 to my understanding there is not positive and negative, but instead of that there is phase, neutral and ground lines. Positive and negative are in battery world doing DC current. Please correct me if I am wrong, but also correct yourself if you are wrong ;-)
@@MyPlayHouse It is good to check that, but typical electrical home appliances you can plug in to the wall both ways. There is some fluorescent tube lamp wiring diagrams available in google image search, you should be able to see how it goes there. Seems like one connector from each side of the tube is meant to connected together through the starter.
So LED tubes don't need the neutral line.. Interesting, but might be a problem in the future. If I remember correctly you might have build an typ of antenna that could interfere with everything electronic in the house wired to mains or wireless. You want line and neutral on both connectors. One side is normally shorted anyway but that way it doesn't matter in which direction the tube is pluged in.
That's no bulb, my friend. Those are the round ones that you screw into a lamp socket. That's a tube. Fluorescent tubes have come a long way. They were way more efficient than the incandescent lamps but unfortunately, they had mercury and UV in them. Not the best eco-friendly lamps.
You way over complicated this You needed a led starter, ie take out old flourescent starter, and put in led starter, and then put in led tube. You way over complicated The little device you took out is called a starter in english, you need to get a led one, put that in, then put led tube in, and your done. The wiring is same. You have starters for flourescent that you took out with flourescent tube, then you put in led starter that you did not have, and then put in led tube. That small thing you took out and did not know the name of, was called a starter. When you brought your led tube, you needed also a led starter, and just put both in, no changing of wiring needed.
"Let's see if we can blow some shit up" This phrase is one of the reasons that I love you for sir!
Thank You,,, I am sure I stole it from somewhere :)
great great
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Those LED "tubes" are beiing sold as 'drop in' replacements i.e. nothing of the wiring has to be changed for them to work in a TL armature.
I might have overdone it.
not true for all of them
I think the L stands for live. Live and neutral.
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Nice video as usual from the Vi-King of Random! 🤓
Follow up video,, 10 years later :-)
For safety you should label the N and L side. Just in case you need it in future 10 years video.
Not sure it makes a differences,, but yes I should.
Don't worry. Best engineers worked hard to make sure that lamp burn out 2 months after warranty ends. So, every 1 or 2 years (if you choose fancy ones) they would remind you about themselves.
It's first generation of led and fluorescent lamps worked decades, but in 5 years they optimised manufacturing processes to guarantee constant demand.
The way those fluorescent tubes work is that on the opposite sides there are two contacts that power two little incandescent lights on both ends, they are needed to heat up the electrodes and facilitate flow of current when the tube is starting up with high voltage, once the starting sequence is completed the two lights are no longer powered and current only flows across the tube.
Also the L and N labels on the LED replacement are kind of useless and you could have just put it in there after removing the starter (that weird component with two contacts).
Hi @SuperSerNiko97
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There must be some confusion 3:16 to my understanding there is not positive and negative, but instead of that there is phase, neutral and ground lines. Positive and negative are in battery world doing DC current. Please correct me if I am wrong, but also correct yourself if you are wrong ;-)
Well it is one phase and a zero,,, it could make a differences what end goes to the zero,,, it could,, now sure if it makes any differences.
@@MyPlayHouse It is good to check that, but typical electrical home appliances you can plug in to the wall both ways. There is some fluorescent tube lamp wiring diagrams available in google image search, you should be able to see how it goes there. Seems like one connector from each side of the tube is meant to connected together through the starter.
So LED tubes don't need the neutral line.. Interesting, but might be a problem in the future. If I remember correctly you might have build an typ of antenna that could interfere with everything electronic in the house wired to mains or wireless.
You want line and neutral on both connectors. One side is normally shorted anyway but that way it doesn't matter in which direction the tube is pluged in.
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Oh, it was a Philips fluorescent light, it's 1000 hours running time was up so it had to die, contract obligations 😬
I guess it did okay,,, I installed it 10 years ago,, and it was used at that time.
That's no bulb, my friend. Those are the round ones that you screw into a lamp socket. That's a tube.
Fluorescent tubes have come a long way. They were way more efficient than the incandescent lamps but unfortunately, they had mercury and UV in them. Not the best eco-friendly lamps.
Tube tube tube,, I will try to remember that.
The L stands for Live; which is what you won't be if you touch it.
Yarh,, 230Volt AC,, you notices that...
its called a starter in english
Ahh thank You,, many things are called a starter :-/ a bit confusing,, out eating you can order a starter!! :-)
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I am sure I could have facked that if I wanted to... :-)
4:47 you're cheating! You know it's called Live.... I almost fell for it... (ok, I did)
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the light still flickering for some reason
Might,, it is not as bad as the tube,, before it went all dark.
L stands for live
Do not touch it,, and you will live :-)
live
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:D:D:D:D I hate to be that guy... but N=Neutral and L= LIVE! :D:D:D:D Don't hate me :D
Too late,,, there is already a que of haters Lining up :-)
You way over complicated this
You needed a led starter, ie take out old flourescent starter, and put in led starter, and then put in led tube.
You way over complicated
The little device you took out is called a starter in english, you need to get a led one, put that in, then put led tube in, and your done.
The wiring is same.
You have starters for flourescent that you took out with flourescent tube, then you put in led starter that you did not have, and then put in led tube.
That small thing you took out and did not know the name of, was called a starter. When you brought your led tube, you needed also a led starter, and just put both in, no changing of wiring needed.
Yes,, I might have overdone this.. :-/ But it does work.
There no not any L and N on my led lysstofrør. all i need to do whit mine was replace the glim tænder whit a led starter.
Might have worked om mine as well..