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How to change this bulb?

  • 25-01-2018 7:32pm
    #1
    ger vallely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭


    I can't believe I'm looking for help in changing a bulb! So, one end opens up a little, there's a tight Spring inside. We have no clue how to get the frosted glass part off or out to see what type of bulb there is and to change it. Any help would be very much appreciated.


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  • #2
    jonon9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭jonon9


    Looks like a fluorescent light, can you open it up at all, that face piece is just a cover.


  • #3
    ger vallely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭ger vallely


    The frosted piece is set into the frame. The frame slightly opens up st the end away from the smoke alarm but it doesn't open enough to slide the glass out. Seems like an engineering problem!


  • #4
    aido79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭aido79


    ger vallely wrote: »
    The frosted piece is set into the frame. The frame slightly opens up st the end away from the smoke alarm but it doesn't open enough to slide the glass out. Seems like an engineering problem!

    It's most likely an LED sealed unit going by how shallow it is. There will be no bulb in it and the only thing you can do it replace the whole thing.
    Does it work at all? You may need to access the attic to check out if there an LED driver attached to it.


  • #5
    BarryD2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,732 ✭✭✭BarryD2


    Are LED lights not reasonably recent? This installation looks a bit more dated. Would there be one of those circular fluorescent bulbs in the housing?


  • #6
    ger vallely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭ger vallely


    aido79 wrote: »
    It's most likely an LED sealed unit going by how shallow it is. There will be no bulb in it and the only thing you can do it replace the whole thing.
    Does it work at all? You may need to access the attic to check out if there an LED driver attached to it.

    It does open somewhat at one end, two thick tight springs holding the flap closed. Above that light is a bedroom. Thanks though!


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  • #7
    ger vallely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭ger vallely


    BarryD2 wrote: »
    Are LED lights not reasonably recent? This installation looks a bit more dated. Would there be one of those circular fluorescent bulbs in the housing?

    The house was only built 9 years ago so it cannot be any older than that. I've taken the photo to a light fitting shop and they've never seen one like it! Would love to get it fixed as it is a great light from it.


  • #8
    aido79
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    ger vallely wrote: »
    It does open somewhat at one end, two thick tight springs holding the flap closed. Above that light is a bedroom. Thanks though!

    I'd say it opens from the opposite side to the one the springs are on. Have you tried that?


  • #9
    ger vallely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭ger vallely


    aido79 wrote: »
    I'd say it opens from the opposite side to the one the springs are on. Have you tried that?

    Yes, we've tried that. It only opens at one end the rest of the casing is rigid and does not move at all. So fecking annoying and seems like I'm just missing something simple! Thanks though.


  • #10
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    The side the spring is on may be what releases it and then push and pull the opposite side.

    Can you see any screws or a place for a flat head screw driver to pop it.

    Did the light come out at the sides or the bottom?

    The smoke alarm may well be in the way too.

    Usually with those types as I said it's pull down tilt and slide to unlock.


  • #11
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,614 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    They don’t look that unusual, but you’ll need to poke around to see how it comes off, possibly at the spring loaded end you can reach in and slide springs off if they are clipped to the recessed part, that would be standard enough and it will open 90degrees. If it pops open that end and can see springs that would be me guess, maybe squeeze the camera end of a phone in gap and take a video to try to visualise it.


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