I have 5 light sockets in the kitchen. Two of them are A19 style sockets and three of them are the following sockets:
They fit a CFL type bulb in them. I would like to replace it with an A19 socket style. Can this be easily adapted or does it need to be rewired?
Best Answer
Those have ballasts in them, so it's not a simple re-wire, per se. Nor do I think any adapter would be available, because of that.
You'd have to swap the guts out (the inner can) with one from a new can, and hopefully it will fit (they're not fun to get back into the can they came out of in the first place, so expect some difficulty).
I don't think you can buy 'can innards'; you'll be buying a whole new can light and just using parts of it.
Another consideration is determining if they're IC can lights (Insulation Contact) and if so, finding the correct replacement 'innards'. But I don't think that's a concern; the 'IC' part of it, is the shell that will remain. I'd just make sure that any replacement had an over-temp cutoff switch.