Will a LED 4' light fixture handle old-type fluorescent lights?

[Dennis S]

Probably not, but I bought some old school bulbs and the fixture for them went out. I bought a new LED fixture to future-proof, but I may be stuck with the old bulbs.

[freeradical]

LED bulbs are directly wired to the AC power source.

Fluorescent tubes require a starter.

[Robert M]

Dennis,

Bring them to an appropriate recycling center. Not worth the time and effort to try and reuse them.

Robert

[cbelt3]

You can still buy fluorescent fixtures and the parts for them. Modern florescent bulbs don't require separate capacitor starters.. it's built into the bulbs and the ballast (transformers).

[Acer]

cbelt3 wrote: it's built into the bulbs and the ballast (transformers).

...that crap out now wayyy before they used to.

Recycle the tubes. Buy the future.

[deckeda]

Dennis those tubes will sell locally, no problem. Lots of people haven't yet updated to LED fixtures. Even if you give them away it's better (I feel) than trashing them.

[Racer X]

free on craigslist.