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After reading the previous reviews and being totally sick of changing T8 florescent tubes I decided to take a chance and ordered two of these. Based upon the reviews I had pretty low expectations. I can tell you that ANYONE with even the most rudimentary handy person skills can do the simple rewiring required to make these work. If you are very very slow it should take you no more than 15 minutes to convert each fixture. After removing the shade from the fixture, simply remove the reflector/cover from over the ballast and wiring. This will expose the ballast and wiring. Remove the ballast (or cut away the wires and leave the ballast in place) and then wire the fixtures black/blue/red (whichever color(s) your fixture uses) to the black or "hot" wire in the wiring coming into your fixture from your house wiring and wire the fixtures white wire to the white or "neutral" wire from your house wiring, re-install the reflector/cover over the wiring (and now abandoned ballast if you chose to leave it in place, install the new LED tube(s) into the fixture just as you would the "normal" tubes, re-install the fixture cover and you are done. Be sure and install or re-install wire nuts on the wiring connections to secure and insulate the connections and make sure that none of the exposed conductor in the wires extends outside the wire nuts. It takes less than a 1/2 second (virtually instant) for the LED strip to light once switched on in my experience. This is much faster than the times quoted in the other reviews. These strips are very bright and I used one LED strip in each of two fixtures to light a 12 x 12 foot room that previously used 4 tubes to provide barely adequate but not ideal light. The light from the LED strips is very white and very bright and I believe that I will stay with only one in each fixture or perhaps add one more strip at the most. In either case the two LED strips provide more and better light than the previous 4 florescent tubes ever did. So far I am very happy with these and am very happy to cut my energy consumption further and have one more source of mercury removed from my home. Now, if someone would come out with a quality and affordable 100 watt equivalent screw in bulb I would have my entire home converted to LED and will never go back to the mercury laden CFLs or energy wasting incandescent bulbs.

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I read the limited instructions and found that the bulbs are wired all on one side. I even downloaded instructions.

I am a licensed electrician and could not get these bulbs to work

I think the idea of LED bulbs is great, but use caution when buying them. Make sure they are quality and have a solid return policy.

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I have a 4' T8 fixture in my garage. It gets cold here in New England and when its cold it takes a long time for the fluorescent bulbs to get bright and it seems to kill them. I have had a bulb burn out approximately once a year vs the ones in my basement that are still going after a decade. So I decided to see if these LED replacements would work better.

These don't use the ballast so you do have to re-wire the fixture. I left the ballast in place and just wired around it. One of the first lamps I got had a 6" section in the center that wasn't lighting. Lightkiwi replaced it quickly (and refunded my shipping) but the second one was completely dead. They replaced that one even faster and it was fine. So far I've had them running for 6 weeks and they work great. They come on virtually instantly to full brightness. It has not been below freezing since I bought them so I'll have to wait until next winter to see how they fare in really cold temperatures. The light seems pretty close to the amount I got from the fluorescent bulbs.

I have 12 similar fixtures in my basement shop but I'm not considering using these down there right now. Too much money and not enough energy savings to make it worthwhile.

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I know it's easy to wire these wrong, but I wired them correctly and they simply didn't work. I ordered a total of 8 different lights, 2 of this kind. All the other 6 (different brands but same wiring) worked correctly, but these 2 did not.

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This is great product. Saw some reviews that they don't work but I think they didn't install the product correctly. Installation step was quite different from old florescent and it is extra work for first time but since it should last really long time compare to old florescent, this is definitely worth to make a change. This was one of the recent purchases that I did without any regret. If you are hesitating to try out T8 LED tube, I would say just give it a try with this Lightkiwi T8 LED tube and you will love it!