in Ky do you have to retrofit a disconecting plug from the supply to the new balast for safety?
In Manitoba as old fluorescent fixtures get new balasts they are being upgraded with plugs to meet the Manitoba version of cec Rule 30-308(4). The rules still suggest flipping the breaker off before opening the plug thought.
I don't know the answer to this question, but I suspect not. Louisville is under the 2005 NEC. The maintenance person was back the next day replacing more bulbs and I noticed the circuit was off (all the other lights in the area were off where he was working) so he must have turned the circuit off at the breaker. The lights that were out, he just replaced the bulb. The light he was shocked from was one that had been flickering. He pulled it down, was working on it to replace the ballast and.... POP! HISS!! OUCH! was the result. I guess he got the message.
