UL listed recessed lighting.

[RandTheApprentice]

Hey everyone,

My mentor and I bought these recessed lights for a customer whose thermal went bad. Come to find out, the new lights are too big to mount in place of the old ones. I suggested that we take the wiring from the new fixture and place into the new one, and he says that would cause them not to be UL listing. My issue is that they are both UL listed, so why can't the wiring be replaced so we can use the old fixture that we know can be mounted into the ceiling?

 

[iwire]

Hey everyone,

My mentor and I bought these recessed lights for a customer whose thermal went bad. Come to find out, the new lights are too big to mount in place of the old ones. I suggested that we take the wiring from the new fixture and place into the new one, and he says that would cause them not to be UL listing. My issue is that they are both UL listed, so why can't the wiring be replaced so we can use the old fixture that we know can be mounted into the ceiling?

Just because two similar items are UL listed does not mean you can combine them and assume they will still meet the standards they are listed for.

Now in this case we are taking about recessed fixtures which which are notorious for heat build up. Who's to say the thermal element of the larger fixture is proper for a smaller fixture.

 

[kwired]

Even in same product line you may see different thermal device in a IC vs a Non IC can, but most everything else looks the same.