I have a ceiling light I bought from ikea about 10 years ago. It is no longer available at ikea. I was changing the bulbs and one of the light ceramic insulators was damaged and fell out. Obviously it will short out of the switch is turned on. I,m trying to figure out a way to repair this. Could I just fill the hole with epoxy to insulate it?
No, epoxy will not withstand the intense heat. You need a ceramic lamp base. If you remove the base so you can get a look at it you can search online for something that might work.
I currently have old light fixtures above the kitchen cabinet connected to light switch?
I want to switch to led , maybe color changing - puck lighting but keep connected to wall switch? Is this possible? If yes, is it easy to do? Or do I need to hire someone.
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After frying the wattage limiter while testing the light socket, I looked at another thread here on bypassing the PL-190B which had worked the individual and applied the same. The difference is that my fan (Minka Aire Concept II) has a remote, therefore a receiver in the fan. From the receiver there are 2 wires labeled "for light" coming out: a withe one and a blue one (see picture). So, after removing the PL-190B, I left the white wire coming from the light with the white wire from the receiver, and nutted back the black wire coming from the light to the blue wire coming from the receiver. Straight forward right? I don't see another sensible way to do it. Now the light works fine... but from the wall switch only. The remote works well to control the fan but not the light. So is it possible the remote/receiver were using the fried wattage limiter to operate the light? Or is it possible the short damaged the lighting portion of the receiver as well?
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