My kitchen fluorescent lamp which is 6 foot 100 watt unit wouldn't light tonite the starter flickered but no sign of any tube activity. It was very cold in the kitchen so I put the boiler on which warmed things up nicely I tried the tube again and although a bit sluggish it lit ( maybe my swearing at it helped) my question is do you think it's just because the tubes old and doesn't like the cold or is there something else going on?
But as noted above, an LED fitting in the same place will be about half the current, for a similar brightness, so given the costs, the days of just replacing tubes are probably numbered.
To achieve the same brightness you may need to replace the whole fitting with a complete LED design. Plug-in LED replacements for fluorescent tubes are available but, though they use less than half the power, they produce less light than the fluorescent tubes they replace. A 1·5 m replacement LED tube, for instance, gives barely more light than a 1·2 m fluorescent.
But as noted above, an LED fitting in the same place will be about half the current, for a similar brightness, so given the costs, the days of just replacing tubes are probably numbered.
To achieve the same brightness you may need to replace the whole fitting with a complete LED design. Plug-in LED replacements for fluorescent tubes are available but, though they use less than half the power, they produce less light than the fluorescent tubes they replace. A 1·5 m replacement LED tube, for instance, gives barely more light than a 1·2 m fluorescent.
