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What's that thing?

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By changing the wires of the neon, I discovered that small stuff. It should give energy to the starter. Both legs was rolled up to the naked wires but I didn't succeed to desolder the wounded part, so I had to cut it. Now the legs are shorter but still efficients since both joins the solder points, but I'd prefere to get a new one. I also burned the body a bit (not something terrible but a small point on every side), I hope this will not giving me any issue.
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A capacitor maybe?

I don't think it matters if you burned the protective foil a small bit.
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Yeah it looks like a capacitor. Can I replace it with any other kind of caps having the same value?
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Or just fit an LED tube instead, and ditch the ballast and starter stuff..
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Flinnster wrote: June 9th, 2019, 2:28 am Or just fit an LED tube instead, and ditch the ballast and starter stuff..
That can be a good idea. So the LED tube would only requiers two harness?
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You just need to connect the LED tube to AC. Just make sure your tube can run on 100VAC. I bought a 240V one and it flickered when connected to 100V. Returned it and got one that was rated for 90-260V. Works great.

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I see, so if I replace my actual neon by a LED tube, I should be able to remove the whole red wire, the ballast and the starter (pls see the shema)?
If I can keep the black wire only, should I hook it to some other points like 1, 3 or 4? Maybe another one should also goes to ACL?
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Yeah, you just need to connect two pins, one to live and the other to neutral. You don't need to connect all four.
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No matter which side to L/N? Is it ok like this?
p.s. I also heard about putting some led strips in the neon tube, does the wiring would stay the same?
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With AC it doesn't matter where you connect live and where neutral, just that they're on different pins ;)

The pins should be labeled on the tube.
erzane wrote: June 9th, 2019, 6:02 pmp.s. I also heard about putting some led strips in the neon tube, does the wiring would stay the same?
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Ok, thanks!! :)
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