SATCO Lighting S11650 9W 2 Foot T5 LED, CCT Selectable, G5 Base, Type B, Ballast Bypass, Single or Double Ended Wiring, White Finish

Yes. The S11650 is a Type B, ballast bypass lamp, so the fixture's fluorescent ballast has to be removed or bypassed and line voltage wired straight to the sockets. It will not operate on an existing T5 ballast. Plan for a qualified electrician and a fixture relabel, since the sockets carry line voltage after the conversion.

Either one. This 2 foot T5 LED accepts single or double ended wiring, so it works whether the fixture brings line and neutral to one end or splits hot at one end and neutral at the other. That flexibility is what lets it drop into most existing T5 troffers and strip fixtures without rewiring the sockets themselves.

It uses a G5 bi-pin base, the same base as a standard 2 foot T5 fluorescent tube, so it seats in the existing lampholders. The change is electrical, not mechanical: the ballast comes out and the sockets get line voltage.

Yes. The lamp is rated 120-277 volt, so the same tube runs on 120V residential and light commercial circuits and on 277V building lighting panels. One stocked item covers both, which is why it suits multi-tenant and institutional retubes.

It is CCT selectable, so one part number covers the color temperature choices and you set it at the lamp rather than stocking multiple SKUs. For a property manager retubing a building, that means a single item, model S11650, can match warmer corridors and cooler back-of-house areas.

The S11650 draws 9 watts. A 2 foot T5 fluorescent is typically 14 watts nominal before ballast losses, and with the ballast removed on this Type B conversion you drop those losses entirely. Run the load numbers off 9 watts per lamp when you size the circuit or write the energy calc.

Type B, which is what the S11650 is, means the ballast comes out and you wire line voltage to the sockets. Up front it is more labor, but there is no ballast left to fail and no compatibility list to check. A Type A plug-and-play tube installs in seconds on the existing ballast, but it depends on that ballast continuing to work and being on the manufacturer's compatible list. If the ballasts in your fixtures are aging, Type B is the one that ends the maintenance cycle.