Our cooker hood has two rather feeble lights behind two lenses that are about 15cm X 5cm. There?s no reflector above the bulbs so about 90% of their output is wasted illuminating the inside of the cooker hood. Fitting brighter bulbs doesn?t really overcome the design flaws.
I was wondering about fitting a couple of suitable LED panels behind these lenses. Anyone done this? Any suggestions for suitable panels?
Tim
What type of bulbs are the existing lights? Would it be possible to simply replace them with LED equivalents with higher light output (but a lot less heat)?
They were incandescent candle bulbs and I?ve tried brighter alternatives but the fundamental issue is that only a fraction of the bulb?s output makes its way through the lenses.
Tim
Not hard to put a bit of aluminium behind the lamps - I'd stick to the little crappy screw in bulbs even if you go LED.
Possibly the smallest of
Probably glued to a piece of metal as a heat sink and fitted directly almost touching the existing lenses
A cheap power supply (LED driver) would also be required.
Random Example: (a 3W module would run multiple LEDS)
A few strips of LED tape lighting on the reverse of each lens?
Thanks, those look interesting. Worth a shot at those prices.
Tim
Are you sure they are the right bulbs?
Typically, cooker hoods have bulbs with integral reflectors - small screw in spot lights or some modern equivalent. If someone has, for example, fitted a bulb with the right base but not reflector then it would explain your problem.
They?re not spots. They?re SES candle bulbs mounted horizontally behind a lens cover.
Tim
That's what I assumed. Normally there is a bent alloy reflector behind those
Easy thing to fake up
Not *that* typical. :-) Our extract hood has two very ordinary SES candle bulbs, originally 40w incandescent, now replaced with LEDs which work perfectly well.
Yes, that's what ours has, are they resally not bright enough? Ours don't have refelctors behind them but throw sufficient light onto the hob. I guess the inside of our hood is stainless so reflects some of the light.
Chris Green has brought this to us :
Ours had a pair of 15w lamps in, no reflector - just open behind and a window slot below. I replaced the, with two 3.5w LED bus lamp style lamps. They are adequate, much better than they were.
Yes, same here. I did think the heat from the hob might shorten the life of the LEDs, but no problem after at least 5 years . . .
Mine had SES candle bulbs and from the outset not that efficient at lighting the hob. They lit the back-splash better than the hob.
I replaced them with the highest rating corn cob bulbs that I could find at the time Random example of the type - not the ones I purchased
The result is a lot better than with the original bulbs but not ideal. On my hob the lights are in the wrong place being at the back and with the bulbs mounted back from the plastic covers any light divergence by more than perhaps 20 degrees is blocked by the cover aperture
Mine has those, with a not especially shiny "cupped" reflector made from pressed steel, any way you could fix a chinese-takeaway container in there?
Fitting LED "filament" candle lamps as replacements did make quite a difference
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