Greg Ehrich tells the story of a retrofit job he is working on where the new bulbs will void the UL certification for the fixture. Is there an easier way to convert the lighting without costing the owner thousands?
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Greg Ehrich, LC is the former President of the National Association of Innovative Lighting Distributors (NAILD) and owner of Premier Lighting, a progressive lighting distributorship.
Michael Colligan is an entrepreneur and inventor. He’s a subject matter expert in commercial and industrial lighting supply, lighting retrofits, and finding recycling streams for hard-to-recycle waste.
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UL is not voided in a bypass tube job. Most tubes are UL listed 1598 as a “retrofit kit”, not as a lamp, so the fixture is still UL.