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Electricians/Industrial Lighting Guys.....A Question
Horse Plains Drifter
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These lights are 1000W Mercury Vapor lights, and are old, and some don't work anymore so they need replaced. Are there any LED lights that operate on 230V? I have looked, and all the LED lights I find operate on 120V. The way these lights may be wired, separating out the wiring to convert to 110V may be a chore. Installing 230V LED lights(if there is such a thing) would potentially be much easier. TIA for any input.
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Question I haven't thought of. Also curious of answer.
No electrician here but mess with rotary and digital converters.
Three phase is just that, 3 leads each are 120 volts. One lead with ground and neutral should do the trick.
An electrician should be along shortly.
Can't you just disconnect one leg of the hot side and hook em up as 110?
These will run on any thing from 120 to 277.
22,000 lumens. Hope you have sunscreen!
Here's a few more that might work.
https://www.1000bulbs.com/fil/search?q=220+volt+led
Don't the Europeans run everything on 220?
I figured that in Washington, like Oregon, you'd have to legally get a permit to change your lights Randy, and with that, they would all have to be solar...🤣
Yes, they make them.
The fixture will need re-wired since they do not need the transformer that the mercury vapor uses.
like andy said, just separate one hot lead and ground you will have 110v. terminate and insulate the other hot lead in the box.
Well first, I think the sun needs to come out to have "solar".🤣 Second out here in the whackers, most people can't even spell "permit"
Thanks to all that have responded. I have convinced the shop owner that we can separate the two existing "hot" wires. One will remain a hot, and we will convert the other to a neutral. Then we will have our 120V. much better selection options for lights.
You may want to check with a local electrical supply house to see if you local electrical supplier has a conversion program for LED lighting. We replaced 30-40 mercury vapor lights with LEDs, including fixtures for only the labor required to replace the fixtures. All hardware was provided by the utility because of the reduced load on the grid.
Brad Steele