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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Hobbies, Crafts, & Houses > Wiring Thread: This stupid safety device started alerting that there wasn't safety!
 
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Hungry Squirrel
Jun 30, 2008

You gonna eat that?
I just replaced my ceiling fan. It has a globe light fixture. I want to use a smart bulb but I can't find a smart bulb that is both rated for enclosed fixtures and the right size to fit through the opening in the globe, but not a candelabra shape/base. I have a replacement light kit that I got second-hand but the connectors are different.

This is the existing fixture:



This is the new light kit:



If there is a smart bulb, not much bigger than A19, that will work in an enclosed fixture, I'm happy. If I can get a new fixture that will have the same connector, that's good too, or if it's simple to re-wire (nothing much harder than stripping a wire and using a wire nut) I'm happy with that also. I don't want to burn the house down, but I also really don't want to have the electricians who hung all my lights come back again.

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Hungry Squirrel
Jun 30, 2008

You gonna eat that?
The existing kit looks like this:



I should also clarify that I'm looking for one of the fancy programmable color-change bulbs. The white ones that tick the boxes are readily available.

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Hungry Squirrel
Jun 30, 2008

You gonna eat that?

shame on an IGA posted:

Have you tested it with a Philips Hue bulb yet

I have a Hue up now; I bought it without measuring the globe opening and it won't fit (it's floodlight shaped, but it was all I could find that was enclosure-rated).

I'm trying to look this up myself but I'm getting nowhere - is there a replacement for just the globe that is open or at least vented? I cannot be the only person doing this. This must be a solved problem. Right?

Edit to note that right now I have just a bare bulb and I don't hate it, but I'd like something to diffuse the light and that doesn't blind me when I look up. So, I'm not looking for function over fancy.

Some table and floor lamps have a shade that just has a wheel-and-spoke arrangement on one end, and the hub ring of the shade goes around the bulb socket and just hangs a bit over the bulb. Is there any reason not to do that?

Second edit: Is something like this a fire or other hazard of some kind?

https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Shade-Light-Cover-Exposed/dp/B09PGL8NRW/

Hungry Squirrel fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Mar 3, 2024

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