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oil pan 4 · 04-22-18, 11:43 AM

I installed a T5 high output, high bay fixture in the foyer.
My wife was not too thrilled. It was a single function 4 tube fixture, with 5000k tubes. She said it was way too bright.
Turning that light on gave you an optical assault of 20,000 lumens.

So I took the single function T5 fixture out, installed a dual function with two T8 ballasts, took 14/3 wire hooked up to the fixture and hooked up an unused wire to be hot all the time, installed a pull switch so 2 tubes can come on from the wall switchs and the other 2 from the pull string by the bedroom door hanging from the ceiling box, running about 35w per tube and installed 3500k tubes. She says that's not as bad. It's probably running up to 7,000 to 8,000 lumens with 2 of the 4 tubes on.
Just using 2 or the 4 tubes is much brighter than turning all old the lights on. There 4 fixtures total in that foyer.

04-22-18, 11:43 AM	#33
oil pan 4 Land owner Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: NM Posts: 1,026 Thanks: 12 Thanked 127 Times in 107 Posts	I installed a T5 high output, high bay fixture in the foyer. My wife was not too thrilled. It was a single function 4 tube fixture, with 5000k tubes. She said it was way too bright. Turning that light on gave you an optical assault of 20,000 lumens. So I took the single function T5 fixture out, installed a dual function with two T8 ballasts, took 14/3 wire hooked up to the fixture and hooked up an unused wire to be hot all the time, installed a pull switch so 2 tubes can come on from the wall switchs and the other 2 from the pull string by the bedroom door hanging from the ceiling box, running about 35w per tube and installed 3500k tubes. She says that's not as bad. It's probably running up to 7,000 to 8,000 lumens with 2 of the 4 tubes on. Just using 2 or the 4 tubes is much brighter than turning all old the lights on. There 4 fixtures total in that foyer.