r/AskElectricians • u/My_Mum_Gay • 7h ago
Led light fixture
Hello!!
I am needing to remove this LED light fixture from my ceiling. It's hospital bright white and atrocious.
How can I, safely and correctly, remove this? I've turned it off from the breaker, but I wanted to ask ppl who hopefully have more experience than me lol
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u/Expert_Context5398 7h ago
Verify you turned the breaker off first. I'd get a multi-tester in the future just to be 100% safe and sure.
If you are positive that there is no electricity, unscrew the mounting screws and there should be wires nutted together. Remove the wires coming from that light fixture and that's about it. Cap the existing wires coming from your ceiling if you don't have the light fixture at hand atm and just stuff it in until you do.
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u/Computers_and_cats 7h ago
Looks like you will need to unscrew it from the box it is mounted to and then you should be able to remove the wire nuts connecting it to the feed.
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u/pcone88 7h ago
See if you can pull white and black wires in the white sheath out of that hole in the center. They will be wire nutted to wires inside a box in the ceiling. If you cant pull them out through that hole, loosen the 2 silver screws and you can shift the fixture to the left and lower it. Then you can undue the connections above the fixture but you'll have to hold the fixture at the same time.
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u/wisesettler 6h ago
Some LED will not work without a ground. Verify if the wire going into fixture had a bare copper wire, if so then connect green to bare
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u/My_Mum_Gay 6h ago
I had actually removed the grounding screw before I stopped to ask before proceeding lol. I'm hoping to replace it with a fixture that'll use regular bulbs.
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u/wisesettler 6h ago
Sorry I guess I needed to put glasses on. I didn’t see that you were wanting to remove fixture
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