Comments on: Converting Ceiling Fan light from Intermediate(E17) to Medium base so you can use CFLs

By: NORM

NORM — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:23:56 +0000

IKEA HAS E17 CFL’S

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By: zynga

zynga — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:24:30 +0000

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By: Preston

Preston — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:28:00 +0000

Check out ProLighting.com you can get adapters to change the intermediate to candelabra.

By: Preston

Preston — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:26:38 +0000

Check out ProLighting.com you can get adapters to change the intermediate to candleobra

By: Urbano Mendoza

Urbano Mendoza — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:26:42 +0000

Mission accomplished, I was looking for this by almost 48 hours online & offline and finally found your blog, it took me less than 2 hours get done I change from e17 Intermediate socket base to e26 median base, Thanks Toni, and all who post here on the blog …

Urbano Mendoza
Houston, Tx.
http://mvpvirtual.gogvo.com

PD: I came back to show you my tutorial step by step how I doit.

Thank’s again goog job everyone…

By: Dave Might

Dave Might — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:22:27 +0000

found this site a few months ago while looking for an answer to the crappy intermediate bulbs for ceiling fans. In six months I went thru about 12 – 14 bulbs in my kitchen ceiling fans. I finally said “that’s enough” and changed all the sockets in one fan to standard, took about 45 minutes, now running 4 23watt CFL and what a difference in lighting and life of bulb! No Lowell’s or Home Depot in Princeton Indiana, 30 mile drive to each in other cities, but Menards has the light sockets for 2.23ea with 10 inch wires. $8.92 plus tax is chaper than four to 8 adaptors per fan and get to have a choice in CFLs, the only CFL in intermediate base are in a brand that doesn’t work very well for me, they are slow to come on and then have to warm up for full brightness. The “generic” standard base CFLs at Wal-Mart seem to be faster to come on and less time to get to full brightness. Thanks for the tips here on this site! Three more fans to do in the house this afternoon, one in the kitchen and two bedrooms.

By: Zaq

Zaq — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:58:55 +0000

IKEA sells a CFL with an intermediate base.
It is a relector bulb, non-dimmable.
It is in their SPARSAM energy-saving line.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80087669

By: Bryan Vekovius

Bryan Vekovius — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:04:40 +0000

There seems to be some “governor” in the fan as well- seems like the bulb is delayed when coming on, and won’t go over 40w. Any ideas or work around here?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:20:48 +0000

I was going to do this today, but was in HomeDepot, and guess what?

They now carry two types of CFL for intermediate sockets. A 60 watt spiral, and a 40 watt globe.

Couldn’t see any like that at Lowes. Around here HD has a better selection of CFLs.