wiring flourescents in series?

esworp

esworp

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My roommate is retrfitting a couple of his 20watt flourescent hoods, and has all the wiring/parts/guts from two of them and is giving them to me.

How would I wire the transformers/ballasts/etc to one power source? Do I wire them in series (in a row), or can I just splice all of them together at the two leads coming off the switch?
 
Never wire any 115vac item in series. Wiring in series would drop the voltage to each of the items and can cause serious consequences, including fires and destroyed equipment.

Always wire them in parallel.
 
slipknottin said:
Always wire them in parallel.
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SO! this means if I have the guts of three 1 25watt fluorescent bulbs (imagine that someone just took out the inner white frame, with everything but the switch attached...) soldired the negative leads of all three together, and the positive leads of all three together, and then connected them to a switch, then things ought not to blow things up?
 
That is right. That would be wired parallel.

If you went negative to positive between lamps, then back to the switch, it would be series.
 
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