u/FatMacchio

My old fixtures in my basement are ancient (1959) and contaminated with PCB oil (forever chemical). The ballast leaked out and it’s all on the top side of the fixture. Luckily Claude AI warned me about this possibility before opening up the fixture so I took the necessary precautions and will be disposing of them properly with my town.

I was looking at the above linked light fixture since the included bulbs seem like they’re decent quality, but the only issue is that it’s plug in and not hard wired. Are there any better options for this price with the same quality or better bulbs? Buying two of the Toggled LED tube bulbs seems to be only 2 dollars cheaper than getting the fixture with the bulbs.

I figure I could cut the cord on the toggled fixture and hardwire it to my house circuit using wago connectors due to stranded to solidcore and likely material difference copper to aluminum. I was originally thinking of just putting a female grounded connector on the end of the flex conduit wiring coming into the recessed housing, to plug the light in to…but that feels like it might not be up to code. I don’t want to go to AI with a question like this, I need actual electrician input here. That seems like the easiest most foolproof method because I can clearly see which mains wire is live vs neutral, and where to ground, but I don’t want to cause any electrical code compliance issues, or even worse create a hazard.