I would like to update my interior LED bulbs to a warmer color and can't seem to find similar bulbs to switch out - my interiors are using three different types of bulbs. Is it time to update the light fixtures instead? I searched the forum and got even more confused, lol. I have zero experience rewiring but happy to learn if I need to! Thanks for any guidance, pics uploaded for ref.
I’ll share my point of view on your LED questions which with a little bit of luck might be mostly correct.
My best guess on the first photo is that someone removed a socket similar to the one in the second photo because they wanted to use that type of LED lights. I suppose you might be able to find warmer lights using similar type of LED lights. Unfortunately,I can’t help you with that.
Replacement for the light in the second photo is straightforward. There’s many sources for LED replacements. A highly recommended resource is the following website.
M4 LED Products (https://m4products.com/)
I’ve purchased all our LED replacement lights from them and I’ve not had any burn out in more than five years. They have excellent Customer Service.
The third photo appears to show that the original fixture was rewired to use LED strip lights. If you can’t find LED lights that are similar but with a warmer light than you have two choices. One is to rewire the fixture so you can use tube LED lights, which is what we did. The above mentioned website has instructions on how to do that. The second option is to buy replacement fixtures, which was a topic recently discussed on this forum.
If it was me, I would buy replacement fixtures for the first photo and the third photo and then use LED replacement bulbs for all the other fixtures similar to the one in the second photo.
I hope this information is helpful.
Footnote: if this information contains typos, allow me to explain the reason. I finished my taxes this afternoon with the assistance of one of those tax apps. Every year it creates such stress. And this year it was no exception. In fact, I was such a wreck afterwards that I had to have a Diet Coke.
I’ll share my point of view on your LED questions which with a little bit of luck might be mostly correct.
My best guess on the first photo is that someone removed a socket similar to the one in the second photo because they wanted to use that type of LED lights. I suppose you might be able to find warmer lights using similar type of LED lights. Unfortunately,I can’t help you with that.
Replacement for the light in the second photo is straightforward. There’s many sources for LED replacements. A highly recommended resource is the following website.
M4 LED Products (https://m4products.com/)
I’ve purchased all our LED replacement lights from them and I’ve not had any burn out in more than five years. They have excellent Customer Service.
The third photo appears to show that the original fixture was rewired to use LED strip lights. If you can’t find LED lights that are similar but with a warmer light than you have two choices. One is to rewire the fixture so you can use tube LED lights, which is what we did. The above mentioned website has instructions on how to do that. The second option is to buy replacement fixtures, which was a topic recently discussed on this forum.
If it was me, I would buy replacement fixtures for the first photo and the third photo and then use LED replacement bulbs for all the other fixtures similar to the one in the second photo.
I hope this information is helpful.
Footnote: if this information contains typos, allow me to explain the reason. I finished my taxes this afternoon with the assistance of one of those tax apps. Every year it creates such stress. And this year it was no exception. In fact, I was such a wreck afterwards that I had to have a Diet Coke.
Thank you, Ed!! Will explore the link and your suggestion of replacement fixtures. Congrats on finishing your taxes - I'm going to pay someone this year to stress out for me, lol. 8)
There is a simpler way. My Airstream came with twelve very cold in-ceiling lights. I changed them to warm white by simply cutting a dozen circles of peach-colored theatrical filter material (https://www.amazon.com/Hemobllo-Diffuser-Acrylic-Correction-Photographic/dp/B0C9Q3YYYC/ref=sr_1_17) and inserting a disc in each fixture. It did the trick, and was a lot cheaper than buying new lights! Since the material can be cut to any desired shape with scissors, you can retrofit just about any light fixture with it.