XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y   
   From: Gothberg"@internet.co.is   
      
   On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:42:46 -0000, William Gothberg <"William G   
   thberg"@internet.co.is> wrote:   
      
   > Those fake starters people put into fluorescent fittings when they put in an   
   LED tube.... what's inside?  An LED tube draws power from the two ends, I   
   looked inside one of my tubes and the two pins at each end are shorted   
   together.  The LED PSU takes    
   power from both ends if you see what I mean, it expects live at one end and   
   neutral at the other.  So why on earth would you need anything in the starter,   
   even if you left the ballast in?  Surely it's best to have the starter open   
   circuit, i.e. just    
   remove it.  Does it perhaps in some way negate the inductive nature of the   
   ballast to be nicer to the LED PSU?   
      
   I think I've answered my own question - they're perhaps for those cheap shit   
   single ended LED tubes, which take the power from the two pins at one end,   
   thus requiring the power to go through the starter to run the LEDs.  Double   
   ended LED tubes make much    
   more sense, they only draw current through the ballast, and you can just   
   remove the starter, or leave it in wasting power as it'll be on all the time.   
      
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