Modification of dome light to add pull switch?

[Poppy___Nana]

Has anyone wired a pull switch into their ceiling dome light? If you have can you share how you did it?



We have a double light, single switch dome light in the bedroom over the bed which is very difficult to reach. I thought a pull switch would allow easier access.



Any suggestions???

[C_Schomer]

My wife is short and I've put pull switches on the ceiling lights in all of our RVs. I use fan pull switches - 2 or 3 speed depending on how many bulbs. That's the cheapest and easiest. I cut the strings so my head doesn't hit them and wifey can reach them. Craig

[Bobbo]

Poppy & Nana wrote:
Thank you one and all.....I'm not keen on the remote, that is why I was looking at the pull string.

I would love to have two wall switches, since we have two doors into the bedroom (his & hers).....however there is no place to pull the wires down to the switch. The bedroom wall is all wood and the back of the entertainment system....if anyone has any other suggestions, I would love to hear them!

That was why I suggested surface channel to wall switch.

http://www.homedepot.com/b/N-5yc1v/Ntk-Extended/Ntt-surface%252Bchannel?browsestoreoption=1

[westend]

If you'd rather have wall switches, you can get wiremold and lead the wiring through that. The wiremold attaches easily to wood surfaces. I bought a piece, last week that has a self-stick tape on the back and will house 2 14awg wires. It is plastic so cuts easily.

[TurnThePage]

Looks like that device might be capable of powering the water pump too. Might try that!

[FlatBroke]

Artum Snowbird wrote:
Have a look at these

Remote switch

Great idea. I have the bath fan over the shower. Would be nice to be able to turn it while sitting on the throne. Will work for That?

[Poppy___Nana]

Thank you one and all.....I'm not keen on the remote, that is why I was looking at the pull string.

I would love to have two wall switches, since we have two doors into the bedroom (his & hers).....however there is no place to pull the wires down to the switch. The bedroom wall is all wood and the back of the entertainment system....if anyone has any other suggestions, I would love to hear them!

[DonCon]

We installed a wall switch also. One of the best mods made.

[tenbear]

We have a hard to reach bedroom light too. I found the wires to it and installed a wall switch

[westend]

I haven't done it because I dislike strings hanging down but it would be easy to do. Usually, with a double bulb RV fixture, there is a dividing strip of plastic between the two lenses. That strip may house the original switch and it may not. Regardless, you want to mount the pull switch in some part of the fixture housing. If you have the plastic center divider and the original switch is there, that's an ideal location for the new pull switch. Drill the correct sized hole in the fixture and mount the switch.
Your existing fixture and switch will have two wires into the switch. Remove or cut one of those wires. Splice the two cut ends or add another wire to the new switch so that your new pull switch is between the original switch and the removed/cut wire. Replace fixture into location, you're done.

[ADAD437]

Looks pretty straight forward to me. It looks like you will have to turn the light on the setting you want and leave it then turn it on and off with the remote.

[Gene_Ginny]

Kathy, the installation seems simple enough. The customer review section has some good info. LINK The remote could be mounted in the ceiling near the light with the 2 hot wires feeding the remote and the 2 wires out of the remote feeding the light fixture.

[Bobbo]

Surface channel to wall switch.

[Poppy___Nana]

Artum Snowbird wrote:
Have a look at these

Remote switch

Thanks Mike and Carole, I can't find installation instructions and not sure if the remote would work.....for the application we need.

[Artum_Snowbird]

Have a look at these

Remote switch