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0 pointskalleboo3y ago0 comments

One of the problems is that in some countries like the US, ceiling lamps are hard-wired and not "user-replaceable", so people have to resort to using those stupid bulbs in their old fixtures.

I live in Japan, and instead of just a pair of wires coming out of the ceiling, there is a standardized "ceiling socket" [0] which can also support the weight of a lamp. This means that swapping out light fixtures is plug and play, so the standard LED lamp is something like this [1] where you have a nice big flat metal plate backing the hardware is mounted to for heat-sinking.

I don't own any LED bulbs at all - all our lamps are of this type so I wouldn't have anywhere to put one.

It was the same when I lived in Sweden - a standard ceiling light outlet (IIRC there is a EU standard for this now called DCL) so that replacing light fixtures was easy. Moving into an apartment, often they wouldn't even come with light fixtures, you'd bring your own.

[0] https://www.e-connect.jp/images/to_quickB.jpg

[1] https://www.irisplaza.co.jp/IMAGE/HK/PRODUCT/H246902.jpg

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yourusername3y ago

In the Netherlands we have just a pair of wires coming out of the ceiling but everyone replaces their own lamp fixtures anyway. Most people should be able to manage clamping or screwing down the brown or black wire to the L and the blue wire to N.

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