SATCO Lighting S23146 18/16/12 Wattage Selectable, LED HID Replacement, CCT Selectable, Type B, Ballast Bypass, Medium Base, 100-277V

The ballast has to come out. The S23146 is a Type B ballast bypass lamp, so it wires directly to line voltage at 100-277V and the existing magnetic or electronic HID ballast must be removed or bypassed. Leaving the ballast in circuit is not how this lamp is designed to run.

It is both wattage selectable and CCT selectable. Wattage switches between 18W, 16W and 12W, producing 2520, 2240 or 1680 lumens respectively, so you set the output to match what the old HID lamp was doing in that fixture. Satco calls these PowerQuick (wattage) and ColorQuick (color) technology, selected on the lamp itself rather than ordered as separate part numbers.

Yes. The S23146 accepts 100-277V input, so it covers 120V, 208V, 240V and 277V commercial branch circuits with one part number, which is why facility buyers use it to standardize across mixed-voltage buildings. It also carries built-in 4KV surge protection.

The lamp is listed as dimmable. It runs on 100-277V line voltage after ballast bypass, so any dimming has to be done with a line-voltage dimmer rated for LED loads on that circuit, not through the removed HID ballast.

No. S23146 ships as a single configuration (white finish) and both the wattage and the CCT are selected on the lamp, so one SKU covers every output and color option it offers. That cuts the number of line items a distributor or MRO buyer has to stock.

CRI is 80 or better, which is the usual benchmark for general commercial interior lighting and a clear step up from the color rendering of the metal halide or high pressure sodium lamps these typically replace.

The housing is polystyrene plastic (PS) and the lamp weighs 0.55 lb. Light weight matters when you are hanging a lot of them off older sockets in existing HID fixtures.

Built-in surge protection rated 4KV is part of the lamp, which helps in exterior and industrial installations where HID fixtures see line transients.