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Replace underwater pool light bulb- Safe ?
There is a underwater light in my pool in a circular fixture
that looks like a headlight on an old car .It has stopped working. I am told that these are low voltage and the bulb ( if that is the problem) can be changed underwater without draining the pool. Anybody have any first hand experience with this ? Thanks |
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Replace underwater pool light bulb- Safe ?
Yes. Make sure the breaker's off, reach down there with a screwdriver,
and remove the screw(s). Pull the entire unit up to the surface, unscrew the plate that holds the bulb and gasket, take the bulb out(should be a press-fitted base), and take it to the shop for an exact match. It should come with new gasket, too. It's pretty self-explanatory, really. Tom parangles wrote: There is a underwater light in my pool in a circular fixture that looks like a headlight on an old car .It has stopped working. I am told that these are low voltage and the bulb ( if that is the problem) can be changed underwater without draining the pool. Anybody have any first hand experience with this ? Thanks |
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Replace underwater pool light bulb- Safe ?
I have changed a few in my time and found that they are not low voltage.
That is correct about not emptying your pool. There will be one or two screws holding the whole light fixture in place. Once you unscrew these, the whole water sealed fixture can be taken out of the pool to change the bulb. There is enough wire coiled behind the fixture to enable you to take it out of the pool. cm www.vintagetrailersforsale.com "parangles" wrote in message ps.com... There is a underwater light in my pool in a circular fixture that looks like a headlight on an old car .It has stopped working. I am told that these are low voltage and the bulb ( if that is the problem) can be changed underwater without draining the pool. Anybody have any first hand experience with this ? Thanks |
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Replace underwater pool light bulb- Safe ?
The fixture is water tight and should float if you've correctly re-installed
the gasket. -- Remove -NOSPAM- to contact me. |
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Replace underwater pool light bulb- Safe ?
Thanks to all. Couldn't remove the screws - heads are all chewed up, and I was lying on my belly, so I will have to drain out a few feet of water to get at them and extract them somehow- drill them out the head maybe, and use a vise grip on the stump. Cheers. |
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Replace underwater pool light bulb- Safe ?
parangles writes:
Anybody have any first hand experience with this ? Possibly you have a contact, wiring, or transformer problem, and that the bulb is fine. Check that the niche and via aren't leaking before you reassemble: http://www.truetex.com/pool.htm |
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Replace underwater pool light bulb- Safe ?
parangles wrote:
Thanks to all. Couldn't remove the screws - heads are all chewed up, and I was lying on my belly, so I will have to drain out a few feet of water to get at them and extract them somehow- drill them out the head maybe, and use a vise grip on the stump. Cheers. Another possibility is using a pneumatic drill under water. bud-- |
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parangles wrote:
Thanks to all. Couldn't remove the screws - heads are all chewed up, and I was lying on my belly, so I will have to drain out a few feet of water to get at them and extract them somehow- drill them out the head maybe, and use a vise grip on the stump. I don't know how you can do this underwater unless you have a pneumatic tool, but back in my aviation maintenance days, we'd take a circular dremel tool to a buggered up screw head and cut a slot in it, then use a slotted screwdriver to get the screw out. It worked on airplanes; it might work for you. -- Mortimer Schnerd, RN mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com |
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Replace underwater pool light bulb- Safe ?
"parangles" wrote:
There is a underwater light in my pool in a circular fixture that looks like a headlight on an old car .It has stopped working. I am told that these are low voltage and the bulb ( if that is the problem) can be changed underwater without draining the pool. Anybody have any first hand experience with this ? Thanks It could be 12V light but with a high amperage. Think of you car battery can 24V. You can get a pretty nasty jolt from its. Last summer I had a similar problem after a lot of testing I found out that a relay connected to the lamp was malfunctioning and the lamp itself was OK. I had to go thought a lot of wires before finding that out. |
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Replace underwater pool light bulb- Safe ?
The 'reamed out screw head" turned out to be a perfectly good ss hex/allen key bolt. The whole unit is held on with 2 tabs at the bottom and the one hex screw at the top. The bulb is low voltage - cant read it but its 2 digits and the first is a 1 so its probably 12 volts, and it looks like 100 watts. The gasket had failed and the enclosure was full of water. The whole fixture is very primitive and looks like it was designed about 50 years ago. I might upgrade the whole thing depending on the cost. Thanks to all. |
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Replace underwater pool light bulb- Safe ?
A whole new fixture here in AZ is only around $250.00 - $300.00.
cm "parangles" wrote in message ups.com... The 'reamed out screw head" turned out to be a perfectly good ss hex/allen key bolt. The whole unit is held on with 2 tabs at the bottom and the one hex screw at the top. The bulb is low voltage - cant read it but its 2 digits and the first is a 1 so its probably 12 volts, and it looks like 100 watts. The gasket had failed and the enclosure was full of water. The whole fixture is very primitive and looks like it was designed about 50 years ago. I might upgrade the whole thing depending on the cost. Thanks to all. |
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