flourescent ballasts

[THingfool]

Just wondering if flourescent light ballasts are worth anything and what would need to be done to them? Thanks for replies.

Ed

 

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[THingfool]

These ballasts are all newer. Our building was built in 2002 and they are slowly starting to need replaced. May end up with about 50 of them. They are all 4 bulb ballasts. Thank you.

Ed

 

[Rumblebelly]

I just cut the wires from the fixtures and throw the rest in the tin/iron scrap

Iron worth about .09 cents per pound

#1 wire about $1.00 per pound

#2 wire about .50 per pound

this way would be the fastest and most profitable

 

[2muchstuff]

They are transformers, throw them in with the motor breakage/electric motors. Scrap steel pays 7 cents and motor breakage pays 20 cents per LB.

 

[hyderconsulting]

The newer ballast do not contain any PCB's and are easy to spot since they are marked so right on the metal casing. If you peel a ballast apart you will find a copper transformer encased in a resin. The resin is usually on the brittle side and can be beat off the transformer. On one end will be an aluminum foil capacitor(s). Some ballasts have a combination aluminum and copper transformer. Regards, Chris Hyder.

 

[THingfool]

Thanks for all the replies. Will bring them home and do something with them, that's for sure.


Ed