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Light fixture potty room

November 23, 2015, 01:43:06 pm

This light has been acting like the fluorescent tube or ballast is bad for a few months.
Has anyone converted it to LEDs? If so how do I do it and what parts do I need?
I couldn't even get the bulb out; must be a catch or something.
All help appreciated,
Dick

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Re: Light fixture potty room

Reply #1 – November 23, 2015, 07:08:07 pm

That looks a lot like most of the fluorescent fixtures that were in our coach. I replaced most of the fluorescent lamps with strips of LED lights. I used two strips of warm white and one strip of bright white. Since the fixtures are 12V fixtures, the 12V LED strips are good replacements. No ballasts or sockets are required.

For most of the fixtures, I pulled the aluminum box with fluorescent bulbs, socket, and ballast. I used the strips with adhesive and stuck them to the inside of the wooden box. The potty room light in our coach was a surface mount fixture rather that a recessed mount. I pulled the guts of the fixture and put the LEDs in the aluminum box.

I bought my supplies from SuperBrightLEDs. I've been pleased with products and service from that company.

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Reply #2 – November 23, 2015, 08:51:18 pm

JD has it right.  Take the light fixture out, remove the guts, add self stick LED strips.  More strips, more light.  The crimp on connectors are generally reliable but if you can solder a short loop from one strip to the next the results will be more durable.  I posted a source for 3/8" wide double stick tape to use when the adhesive strips that come with the LED strips don't work (common).  Remount the light fixture case with the LEDs installed and reconnect the wires.  Replace the cover. Nice.  Need more light?  Add more strips. 

Most folks like the warm white color (incandescent color, more yellow) compared to the cool white (bluer).  The strips are inexpensive. Buy one spool of each to see which you prefer.  We did.  The cool white LED strips are now doing a fine job in the basement bays and a full surround lighting in the engine bay.

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