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Current carrying capacity of the wires inside a fluorescent batten with regard to LED tubes

Hello all - good afternoon !


As in the subject, can someone verify please what the current carrying capacity of the [thin] wires in a flourescent batten is ?


It is with regard to fitting an LED tube replacement where the [electronic] ballast has to be taken out of circuit; the wires from it to one of the tube mount ('tombstones' ?)  have to be cut and wired from the tube mount directly back to the 240V supply, according to most instructions.


I was curious about the wires with regard to doing this - it must be ok as this is the general instruction, but I was interested to know what they can carry.
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  • I've heard that a lot of the LED replacement bulbs use a series capacitor to drop the voltage by some amount or other are there any that use some other arrangement? Also do the LED tubes have a switch mode supply or a simple rectifier and a bit of smoothing? I'm not considering getting any here at Kelly towers I'm just curious at least partly from an RFI point of view
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  • I've heard that a lot of the LED replacement bulbs use a series capacitor to drop the voltage by some amount or other are there any that use some other arrangement? Also do the LED tubes have a switch mode supply or a simple rectifier and a bit of smoothing? I'm not considering getting any here at Kelly towers I'm just curious at least partly from an RFI point of view
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