So, here we have a gorgeous old chandelier,
full of nice LED warm white bulbs,
with this brass finish on them.
They are about three watts each, so the whole works
of those is thirty-six watts, there's twelve bulbs times
three is thirty-six watts.
And it brightens that room pretty good.
You can see that. Now, there's only one problem.
It's a European fixture.
Now, when we brought it from Europe,
I didn't know that it was,
that there was a difference in the bulb.
So, here is the bulb, it's a fourteen millimetre base.
That's a European bulb, incandescent bulb.
And the base is fourteen millimetres,
Now, here is a Canadian bulb,
or North American bulb,
and that's a twelve millimetre base.
So, how do you do that, how do you make
those lightbulbs work in a European fixture?
Because the 220 bulb that came with it,
was very dull. It had no light at all.
However, I found a way to convert that,
and you can buy these little bits here
that convert from twelve millimetres,
which is the North American bulb,
into a fourteen millimetre,
and you can screw that into a European fixture.
So that's a kind of important thing.
However, what's happened now,
what I really found out now,
is you can actually buy the fourteen millimetre LEDs,
and they work from eighty-five volts
up to 265 volts, so the 110 power
works very well on it here, and it has the big base
built right in, so you don't have to do that.
It's a process because
when we first bought these, tried to convert these
to the LEDs over, the LEDs weren't very bright,
and they ended up where they're almost useless up
there. But now these lights are the, these are the
fourteen millimetre European base lights.
And they are LEDs, and they will work in either lamp,
for power, but these screw right into these old fixtures
from Europe. So, if you have antique fixtures,
that's possible now. You can buy those online
You probably can't buy them in the stores here
because they only sell the American twelve millimetre base
candelabra bulbs in the stores here, unless you order
them special, I guess. But you can buy them online.
I get mine on ebay.
And it's quite a good deal.
It makes these lamps look good.
But, what happened when I used this
type of approach, it sort of added a little bit of length
to that, and the candles didn't actually look quite right.
They sort of sat up a bit, and looked a little bit
like they weren't supposed to be there.
Mind you, you couldn't notice it probably.
I noticed it because I knew about it,
but maybe no one else would notice.
So that's how to do that.
How to convert your European fixture to
a North American one.
Closed Captioning by Kris Brandhagen. brandhagen@gmail.com