Kitchen Bulb replacement

[dcavaiani]

What's up with this? Bulb over sink went out on '06 31BHDS and I can't get the bulb out! I pushed up on a plastic 'tab' and the thing popped out with the wires now showing and the bulb still intact ?

[Proud Grandpa]

I did the same thing. YOu don't have to push the tab, the bulb itself will pull out of the holder.

[dcavaiani]

U must be stronger than me cause it ain't comin' out ;-)

[arkhillbilly]

My bulbs are wedge based, and they (after a struggle) POP OUT. I would guess the heat sticks bulb and plastic base somewhat. A twist or two and a hard pull gets mine out.

[dcavaiani]

Finally got it ;-) Looks like a 921 bulb.

[arkhillbilly]

Should be, with a wedge base.

[SmokerBill]

When you put the new one in, smear some dielectric grease on the bulb base. Makes installing and removing bulbs much easier, and protects the contact points from arcing.

[dcavaiani]

I ordered replacements bulbs for CODE 921. I get a bunch of these really MINI replacement bulbs (Much smaller than the 921 marked bulbs now in the Jayco) with a wedge replacement base. I don't know if they are compatible? I know they are either Halogen or Incandescent. They are marked as T15- 12V16W. Why is this SOOOOO confusing?

[DustyGeek]

The 921s I'm used to are 18w, so you're in the neighborhood.

If you have a lot of problems with bulbs going out, you could buy some paddle style LEDs like these (hopefully the link works since I'm doing this on my phone):

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...obalID=EBAY-US

Replaced all the 921s on my old trailer with the smaller 3w version (180 lumens), but the one I linked to is a 5w (300 lumens) which is more comparable with the normal 18w 921 (280 lumens). The 3w were obviously 60% less power hungry, but were also dimmer.

I never had one go out in about 3 years after that.