Light fixture replacement options

[Technikal]

Hi,

I'm a new owner of a not-so-new pool. It's a 55x15' lap pool, built in the 1990's. It has 2 small lights, one of which currently doesn't work. I pulled the bulb and the lamp fixture itself is damaged, so I'm trying to understand replacement options.

The light is a small Purex 10510 light. Near as I can tell, this is the same thing as a Starite/Pentair "Sunlight" line. I can find direct replacements for it, but wanted to understand what options I had to change to something more efficient. The light itself is so small and uses an off Edison base that finding a screw-in LED replacement bulb is not possible.

Beyond draining the pool and rebuilding, is there any way to retrofit the niche? Ex - convert it to something I could use a surface mount or nicheless light with? Or should I just stick with replacing with the same, or with one of the modern 'spa' lights that fits the smaller niche?

Thanks!

 

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[xyz]

How large is the light?

To to replace it, it is likely you can wire in a new one. Do you know where the other end of the wire goes? That underwater conduit goes to some place well above the pool water line and connects to a switch. If you find that, you can attach a new light to the old wire and pull the new wire through. Wire up the new light to the switch, and you are all set. I did this recently, and it took 15 min. The new LEDs are about 10x more efficient.

 

[Technikal]

Thanks for the feedback.
The current light is small. The lens is about 3.5" in diameter and the ring about 8". It mounts into a small wet niche.

The run to the junction box is pretty straight forward and I'm up for replacing it myself. It just seems that the current niche I have is more common for spas than pools, and that seems to limit my options on replacement.

Thanks again!

 

[xyz]

Pentair makes spa-sized LED lights. I'd guess Hayward and Jandy do too.