MyLEDLightingGuide offers LED Retrofit Kits that allows you to replace the Metal Halide, High Pressure Sodium or Mercury Vapor bulbs and ballasts in your existing fixtures. Retrofitting is no more difficult than a bulb and ballast replacement. Our kits are designed to screw into the existing socket (E26 or E39) and is designed to retrofit High Bays, Low Bays Garage Fixtures, Wall Packs, Flood Lights, Street Lights, Wall Washers, High Masts and more. The basic criteria is that your existing fixture has to be large enough to accommodate the LED retrofit kits. The experts at MyLEDLightingGuide.com will help you decide whether our retrofit LED kits are right for you.
What are the steps to retrofit an existing HID Fixture with our retrofit kits?
- Turn off the power to the existing fixture
- Remove the bulb and ballast from the fixture.
- Remove the reflector (assuming that the reflector is not part of the fixtures waterproof seal).
- Install the LED driver in the location of the HID ballast. Wire the driver to the input wire.
- Install the LED Retrofit head. Wire the driver to the head (Note: the socket is used to hold the LED Retrofit head. The driver is wired directly to the LED Retrofit head)
- Aim the head in the fixture.
- Turn the power back on.
Note: you can use motion detectors and daylight sensors with our LED Retrofit heads. It will NOT affect the life of the LED product.
What are the available voltages?
We have 2 driver options
We also have 0-10V dimmable driver options
What LED Retrofit Kits are available and what will they replace?
If you want to replace an HID fixture above 400W, we have custom kits that are available that include custom plates and mutiple heads.
Top 3 Reasons you should convert with LED Retrofits
- Reduced energy costs: our Industrial Strength LED Lights use approximately 25% of the electricity HID lights use.
- Reduced maintenance cost: our long life LED Retrofits are rated for 100,000 hours. That means no bulbs or ballasts to replace.
- Reduced project costs: use your existing fixtures saves you money!
Applications
- Sports Stadiums
- Parking Lots / Parking Garages
- Hospitals
- Schools
- Roadways / Interstate
- Prisons
- Terminals
- Warehouses
- Factories
- Airports
Replacing Fluorescent Tubes with LED Tubes
MyLEDLightingGuide offers LED Tubes to replace fluorescent tubes, whether they are T5, T8, T10 or T12 fluorescent tubes. All our tubes are either UL/cUL Listed or ETL/cETL Listed. We offer USA Made, ARRA Compiant Tubes, as well as DLC Tubes, that are entitled to utility rebates.
What are the steps to retrofit an existing Fluorescent Fixture with our LED Tubes?
- Turn off the power to the existing fixture
- Remove the bulb and ballast from the fixture.
- Rewire the fixture so that each tombstone on one end has both a line and neutral wire hooked up to line and neutral coming into the fixture. Power is ony required to one tombstone, the other side remains unpowered.
- Install the LED tube into the fixture.
- Turn the power back on.
Note: you can use motion detectors and daylight sensors with our LED Tubes. It will NOT affect the life of the LED Tube.
What should I use to replace a 32W 4 foot flourescent tube?
Every situation is different, but there are some general guidelines:
- Our 18W 1800 lumen tube does a great job in replacing a 32W fluorescent tube. In fact, there are some conditions where de-lamping is possible.
- Our 22W 2247 lumen DLC tube does an amazing job of increasing light output in areas where more lighting is required without increasing fixture count
Top 10 Reasons to Convert from Fluorescent Tubes to LED Tubes
- LED Tubes do not require ballasts
- LED Tubes are rated for 50,000 hours
- LED Tubes do not contain mercury
- LED Tubes do not require special and costly disposal processes at the end of their life
- LED Tubes life is not affected when hooked to a motion sensor
- LED Tubes do not contain glass and are safe in food preparation areas.
- LED Tubes maintain their lumens significantly better than fluoresent tubes
- LED Tubes directional lighting places the lumens where they are needed
- LED Tubes do not require reflectors to focus the lumens created.
- LED Tubes do not flicker - common source of issues like eye strain and headaches
Using LED Post Tops to retrofit existing fixtures
Led Post Tops are another great tool in the arsenal of replacing HID fixtures. They are completely self contained LED Lights that include driver, LEDs and heat sink. Here is a general guideline for replacing HID Lights with LED Post Tops
UL Listed, rated for 50,000 hours and backed with a 3 year warranty, these retrofits give you ease of installation, reduced maintenance costs and savings on your utility bill.