What am I doing wrong, /g/uys? I bought this 32 Watt T8 Electronic

you bought your shit at walmart. there's your problem.

>>60289400
I knew someone would say that.

Now someone who's not a bigoted sonofabitch.

Start at 0V and slowly raise it

I wouldn't recommend doing fluorescent replacement since it's a bunch of transforming and then long strings of series led's to make the voltage. Sounds like a recipe for disaster and or at least not the best efficiency. The more leds in series the more likelyhood for a problem. Also the long tube would require a stable mount for all the led's as well.

The new bulbs have series led's but much less of them and no transformer and run much cooler at a few watts less for the same light. Maybe go with track lighting of some sort.

>>60289685
How the hell do I do that?

And yes, this lamp apparently is a cold instant start lamp.

>>60289641
>Now someone who's not a bigoted sonofabitch.
It is not about 'bigotry', you are aware that A LOT of shit in walmart is low quality trash, right? There is a chance that the shit you bought might be defective.

>>60290096
shiiiit

>>60288621
Don't use LEDSHIT use fluorescent tubes or buy dedicated LED lighting not this drop in replacement bullshit

Walmart should definitely replace those.

>>60290318
I'm kinda leaning toward it being the lamp itself, not the bulbs.

Also, the bulbs still light up and work when I plug them in, they just start smoking, so I quickly unplug them.

>>60288621
For LED you don't need a jumpstarter, lso you have High Frequency shizzle that can only be replaced one on one with HF LED tubes.

Jumpstarter I mean, a little round thingie, looks like a BIG transistor only you can screw it in and all. LED's have one that does nothing, for the normal lamps they SHOCK it hard for startup.

TL:DR;
RTFM, carefully and ask if you might need a new/different armature.

>non-native english typer.

>buy cheap chinkshit
>it doesn't work

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>>60290945
Okay I googled some:
(used to help a webshop that sold this)
You don't give enough info to tell what went wrong but it's probably in the list:

>LED can't handle your fixture
>LED might be the right size but everything else is wrong (HF{special LEDs needed}, starter{LED starter needed} (pic related) )
>A normal tube can handle BAD Wiring much better than LED
>Cheapcrap, though that tends to just give shit light and/or die within a month, not burn out.

Now burnt through stuff was ALWAYS the result of customers just putting in a LED without checking if they could. They are used to popping in a tube and see if it works, but LED dies if it's not supposed to work.

>>60288621
that one you bought uses an electronic ballast. led direct replacement tubes only work with the older transformer type ballast.