"John Grabowski" wrote in message
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"MiamiCuse" wrote in message
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I am not sure what these are called. I think they are called step lights.

From the driveway, I take three steps up to the landing that leads to the
front door. On each side of the steps is a 32" wide 24" tall concrete
"block". There is a pole light on top of these block, and in the front
of these blocks is a recessed rectangular light.

These lights are falling apart. The glass were broken and I pulled the
cover plate off.

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w...l/P1020933.jpg

The cover plates:

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w...l/P1020933.jpg

There is a piece inside that the two bulb sockets are attached to:

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w...l/P1020935.jpg

If I pull the piece out the inside look like this:

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w...l/P1020936.jpg

Closer look:


I'm surmising that those are aluminum housings and did not mate well with
the masonry and moisture. Halo makes step lights and there are probably
other brands as well. I think that I have also seen them in low voltage
which might be an easier retrofit in your case.

Is the wiring in conduit?
Wirings are in metal conduit inside the concrete, once they exit into the
cavity then it's just the wires.

I have removed the housing and everything and put a nut on each wire, then
taped over them and push them back into the cavity. There are two wires
that comes into that wall cavity one white one yellow both of them are solid
copper wire not stranded.

MC