• I want to thank all the members that have upgraded your accounts. I truly appreciate your support of the site monetarily. Supporting the site keeps this site up and running as a lot of work daily goes on behind the scenes. Click to Support Signs101 ...

new to this topic

Geneva Olson

Geneva Olson

Expert Storyteller
We don't sell lighted signs so this is not quite in our wheel house. We are replacing the lights in our own sign. We are ordering the lights from one of our wholesalers and having someone install them. What I need to know is what we need to get (probably from grimco) and how many we need. My husband read somewhere that we need 5000 lumens. Can anyone enlighten me (pun intended) on what we need to purchase through grimco?

TIA
 
U

unclebun

Active Member
You're making it harder than it needs to be. What was the original lighting for the cabinet? Two 10' fluorescent?

If so, replace it with it with two 10' Hanley NRG Streamliners. No power supply necessary. If it was 5 or 6 two footers, then the same number and size of the Streamliners. Might need a connector cable and a surge protector.
 
  • Agree
Reactions: 1 user
JBurton

JBurton

Signtologist
If it were me, I'd just relamp it with new fluorescents, assuming the ballast still works. If it has already been retrofitted, replace with some principal sticks, though your selection is limited by how far the lamps are from the face, not necessarily the depth of the can.
I'm not a big fan of the ballast bypass sticks that run off 120v. We don't have a lot of experience with them, but the fact that they rely on the old wiring and sockets, which will eventually degrade, requiring you to rewire and buy new sockets, really kinda defeats the purpose of a retrofit. The aluminum sticks that fit sockets and are cut to the same length as original lamps are ideal, and take about 10 minutes to relamp and rewire if you're good with a pair of strippers.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top