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General Boards => Technical Support => Topic started by: Jeff Watt on March 28, 2018, 10:40:53 PM
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I have a number of these type of halogen lights in the coach and a few of them are burning out. So I thought I'd change the bulb to LED.
However the first order of business is getting it apart.....
I've tried twisting the outer ring, the inner ring; tried pulling it down......
I don't want to pry it as all are placed on wood.
Anyone worked with these?
Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff,
Take a rubber jar gripper and use it to twist the outer ring counter clockwise and it will come off. Sometimes these are very tight and require working back and forth, but they are meant to twist apart and not be pried off.
Roy Warren
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I kept a kit with rubber "grip" gloves and spare bulbs bought in bulk on Amazon. As Roy says, they only come apart one way.
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Roy & Bill have probably given you all the info you need on these style lights however for those with just the normal halogen style puck lights Roy Boles and I still have numerous led replacements that fit directly into the puck light mounting hole.
There is far better light, much less voltage draw as they are .60 and no heat. Come with a frosted glass cover just like in the new coach's. 2 wire hookup up to existing wires.
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I have ordered the replacement bulbs from Roy & Doug. On the first go-round, I missed the ones under both of the medicine cabinets, plus the three under the slide in the bedroom. I recently ordered more from them.
I can attest, they are easy to install (I did them..nothing more to say) and give out brighter light, and no heat.
There are two options for installation. A spring clip which will get you worse than a mouse trap if it lets go when you are trying to put it in the hole, and the screws from the old ones that go in the original holes. I took a pair of pliers and wrenched the spring clips off, and then fastened them with the original screw. My fingers thanked me profusely.
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I found and replaced 57 halogen (10w) ceiling lights a few years ago. The LED (1.2w) replacements were easy to install and, I agree, are softer light yet brighter, with very little heat output and use less power.
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Roy, Bill thanks for the tip. I’ll give that a try.
I got 54 of the 3” replacement lights from Doug a couple of weeks ago and have been slowly installing. I have been trying different ways to deal with the spring clips.
Stan, thanks for the idea of clip removal is helpful - I’ll attest the springs hurt like @#&$.
There are so many lights in these coaches that it'll take some time given only a few a day what with other things going on.
Thanks
Jeff
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I replaced the 18" florescent tube fixtures with these cherry wood fixtures I made using the puck lights from Roy. Easy to install once I got the polarity correct. Black and yellow wires from the ceiling black and white from puck. Yellow to puck black, black to puck white. Seems backwards doesn't it.
Not quite as bright as the florescent but I like Roy and Doug's puck light better.
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Nice job, Steve. I don’t know that I’d use the puck lights myself there, as I like the lumen spread of the existing ceiling fluorescents. That’s just me though. Yours look darned good. Gives me the idea to make cherry frames similarly, but surrounding the tube fluorescents that I’ve converted to “tube” LEDs. I could frame around the existing curved and frosted plastic lens (that’s a pita to remove) or “update” to a simple flat lens, but that may not allow as wide a lumen throw as the originals.
Thanks for posting the idea.
How did you mount the unit to the ceiling? I see no screw hole plugs.
Joel
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Hi Jeff!
We have these lights in our '07 Thunder, also. When one burned out in the bathroom, I discovered that the small inner ring can be pried out/down with a knife. This smaller ring is the one that also holds the glass in. The whole piece pops out and is very easy to replace the bulb. Then just pop it and the glass back in! Eazy peazy! 😀
Carol :3=
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Joel, I used cabinet latches to hold them on the ceiling. I didn't want to see the screw plugs.
Thanks for the compliments.
Steve