okay YouTube let's see if we can get this light switched over from a halogen to a CFL
or an LED so it's pretty easy to do here you just take out the ball and you got the screw in
the middle there and there is the reflector and you've got two little screws down here
and well I have it apart I'll probably take a shot at cleaning up all the dust and but not
this piled up on there but all you do is take off your two wire nuts there and there's your
old fixture I actually have some plans for this so I will hold on to these parts and all we're
gonna do to upgrade I picked this up at the local hardware store it's a little ceramic bulb socket
and this one has a little tab on the side and all I need to do is get that bent over here
that one came off I guess what I'm gonna have to do is take that little piece off and make my own
little tab actually that's probably works better because I need a little bit longer tab because
you want to get the socket in the middle here the other ones I've done have bent over but this one
seemed to be a little bit stiff so I will just get a piece of sheet metal and put in there now
okay so what I did was just cut it a little pizza scrap sheet metal I had laying around drilled a
little hole and use the existing threads here to give me a little bit of an extension you've got
screw holes here but the you want to get the light bulb centered so you need to come out
a little bit farther so I'm just gonna mark here where I'm gonna drill a hole okay I got
a hole drilled right there that can see Leafs the socket right in the center of the fixture
figure out how I wanted to do the wires here probably get those underneath cause you want
to keep your keep your wires down out of the way that yeah that'll clear okay there we go we got
the two wires hooked up sockets screwed in there is a 58 watt CFL I think I'll try this one first
so you can see the circular I think they call them cirque line bulbs they they actually fit
pretty well in there yeah I got the light plugged in here I left the dimmer switch in and looks like
on the low setting this CFL isn't terribly happy with the dimmer but then there's the full bright
you can see there's definitely some flicker in the CFL you can see the the color banding
in the video anyway there we go I went from 300 watt incandescent down to 58 watt CFL and
I think that light socket was about $3 $4 at the local hardware store that is a real handy way to
recycle an old tourtière floor lamp if you've got one of the old incandescent halogen bulbs
you take out three screws you put one back in with a different socket and it's ready to go
now this one might dimmer switch still work some just have an on/off this one has a three-position
so it's off dim and full and I've had other ones that have an off and then a vernier adjustment
on the brightness since it still works I think just keep that switch there but what you can do
if your switch doesn't work you can get on/off rotary switches like this at the hardware store
and just take the old switch out you can replace it with just a simple on/off switch or if you're
running a switched outlet what I've done I think in one of my lamps is I just tied that
the two wires together there so instead of going through a switch it's just always on and then I
use the switched outlet to turn it on and off so that is another option but anyway if you have an
old light like this just want to save a little energy instead of buying a whole new layout just
buy a new light bulb socket and put in either a CFL or I'm going to try this also with an LED so
I'll do a little update video when I try an LED in there so we'll see how that goes anyway if
you have any questions put those in the comment section below and as always thanks for watching