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Cooker hood 15w fluorescent conversion I have just had to replace a cooker hood that was falling to pieces. The original light in this hood was a 28w halogen candle bulb in the middle of the plastic panel. It produced a poor, uneven light. It looked like the light had been added as an afterthought with no reflector so was quite inefficient, over 50% of the light seemed to light up the inside of the hood. So it was crying out for a conversion to a 15w fluorescent! Here it is with a custom made reflector with the gear mounted on the back. Looks much better now!

Cooker hood 15w fluorescent conversion

I have just had to replace a cooker hood that was falling to pieces. The original light in this hood was a 28w halogen candle bulb in the middle of the plastic panel. It produced a poor, uneven light. It looked like the light had been added as an afterthought with no reflector so was quite inefficient, over 50% of the light seemed to light up the inside of the hood. So it was crying out for a conversion to a 15w fluorescent! Here it is with a custom made reflector with the gear mounted on the back. Looks much better now!

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AngryHorse   [08 Jan, 2016 at 10:09 PM]
Thats a first! Cool , I took the lights out of ours, when I needed to rob the 2 E14 lamp holder out of it, but these get that greasy, I didn`t see fit to re-install anything.
RobTDCI   [08 Jan, 2016 at 10:48 PM]
The previous hood used to E14 candle bulbs but as with this hood, very little light reached the hob where it was required because there was no form of reflector. I converted those to GU10 halogen which worked really well. Ideally the light would be in a separate compartment from the fan, I could probably arrange this but would be a bit of a pain, so will see how it goes on. I think cooker hoods are well worth having though as they save the grease and dampness messing up the rest of the kitchen, we noticed a real difference when we got one in the mid 90s.
Kev   [08 Jan, 2016 at 10:57 PM]
That's a great idea!!!
Dave   [08 Jan, 2016 at 11:21 PM]
Thats sweet as. Nice conversion. We have a cooker hood with two lamps, pretty bright but as you say 50% is wasted. I'd have considered converting ours to fluorescent as you have but unfortunately its two seperate pieces of glass, so again, light would still be wasted sadly.

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