Also, the newer electronic ballasts no longer use such things as PCBs. In fact, as far as I know they don't use anything other than electronics.

At work, the 10-year-old lighting system was put in "on the cheap" and is therefore "old" technology. My office, for instance, has a 22 foot ceiling and the flourescent tubes are flat against it. As you can imagine, we don't change the tubes often! More importantly is the waste of light -- the same lumens per surface area could be achieved at lower power if the lights were newer and lower.

So I'd like to turn the place into a model of modern energy efficiency -- the heating, cooling, lighting and all of it. Anybody know where I can get a couple hundred thousand dollars to do this?









(Yes, I'll be checking out grants.)