Drcpwen Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Where is the best place to purchase florescent light bulbs for the front of a DN276 and DN276E? Is a LED upgrade available and worth the investment? Thanks, Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkinthepark Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 I just ordered two direct wire LED bulbs for my DN276. A local electric supply gets them from Keystone. http://keystonetech.com/signhero/ I've already installed the bulbs in two of my Royal machines and they work nice. You basically remove the ballast and direct wire the neutral to the top sockets and the hot to the bottom sockets. They are pricey, but come with a 5 year warranty and don't need a separate power supply like the cheap strip LED options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drcpwen Posted August 16, 2019 Author Share Posted August 16, 2019 Thanks, I’ll look in to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snickers Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Most 276 we had were F64 single pins but I have seen them double pin and seen some that were 4 bulb setups as well (2 four footers and a couple 24 inches if I remember right). If it was not a single pin setup I converted the tombstones to be single pins to have uniformity between all our machines. We buy the F64 single pin LED's online from D&S vending. They are close to $40 each but you can get away with just 1 per machine positioned right will light up the 276 or even the 501's really nice. You remove the ballast completely and start a pile of them to sell the scrapyard. Use the existing wires to join the bottom lamp holders together and tie into the hot or neutral then do the same to the bottom set of lamp holders. After I did a couple at the shop it was super easy and I was able to do the upgrade on all the machines on location while stocking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drcpwen Posted September 21, 2019 Author Share Posted September 21, 2019 Thanks for all the insight. I ordered LED and upgraded all of my DN 276 models. In the big picture it was very inexpensive and easy to do. Well worth it. Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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