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Auggie

(31,798 posts) Sat Feb 12, 2022, 06:55 PM Feb 2022

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Pissed at Panasonic

Lesson learned: when buying a bathroom fan with lights, be sure they're replaceable.

Lights burned out in our bathroom fan fixture after 8-10 years. They're special manufacture with a tapered base that fits into a tapered slot that were apparently made by or for Panasonic exclusively. Can't find them anywhere (Amazon, Google, specialty lighting).

Perfectly planned obsolescence by Panasonic.

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Pissed at Panasonic (Original Post) Auggie Feb 2022 OP

A lot of the new LED light fixtures have integrated lights so when they burn Luciferous Feb 2022 #1

Mini fluorescents with little prongs instead of a threaded base? FBaggins Feb 2022 #2

Not minis. Size of a standard 60w bulb and with prongs. Auggie Feb 2022 #4

Always wise to make sure parts aren't proprietary. SheltieLover Feb 2022 #3

Yep Auggie Feb 2022 #5

Luciferous

(6,261 posts)

1. A lot of the new LED light fixtures have integrated lights so when they burn

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Sat Feb 12, 2022, 07:51 PM

Feb 2022

out you have to replace the whole thing.

FBaggins

(27,698 posts)

2. Mini fluorescents with little prongs instead of a threaded base?

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Sat Feb 12, 2022, 07:55 PM

Feb 2022

If so… they exist, but it’s cheaper to replace the whole fixture with one of the new ones with LEDs that will last far longer

Auggie

(31,798 posts)

4. Not minis. Size of a standard 60w bulb and with prongs.

Reply to FBaggins (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 12, 2022, 09:32 PM

Feb 2022

Push and twist. The problem is the tapered base. A nin-tapered base won’t fit.

SheltieLover

(59,599 posts)

3. Always wise to make sure parts aren't proprietary.

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Sat Feb 12, 2022, 08:41 PM

Feb 2022

Auggie

(31,798 posts)

5. Yep

Reply to SheltieLover (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 12, 2022, 09:32 PM

Feb 2022

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