JoeWras
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So I bypassed the ballast (actually, removed it) and wired line (mains) voltage to the tombstones as instructed for the 4' LED tubes I bought.
As part of my review gig, I also did this with countless tubes in my workshop and basement. They are now all 5 to 8 years old and running strong. I love them. It is a fairly easy conversion to do.
I held onto my spare fluorescent tubes for a few years and then one day just took them to the hazardous* waste facility. Good riddance.
(* Man, I was not a bad kid in general, but I do remember one time, probably around the '72 Olympics, playing "javelin thrower" in the parking lot of some company. That day I was a bad kid. We must have thrown 30 bulbs. Besides the glass mess, we released a bunch of mercury that day.)