stokesey

Hi - will my table lamps work in Canada?

Cheers,

Stuart.

Steve_P

Unlikely but bring them anyway if you're thinking that way.

It's not that hard to re-wire them with Canadian lamp holders and plugs.

Getting There

Hi Stuart,

We know someone who had that done here (ie: re-wiring of UK lamps). Seemed to work out OK for them. We can find out who did the work if you're interested.

Eamonn & Janet.

Mad Jockette

My hubby rewired our table lamps and they work fine.

HGerchikov

I brought two sets of table lamps that had been gifts so I wanted to keep them - got them converted here. It works well - wasn't cheap but I suspect I could have got it done much cheaper if I had shopped around.

Oakvillian

If by "shopped around" you include popping into your nearest Home Depot, then you could have done it for very little! Five bucks a pop for a lampholder, plus as much cable as you need. It's important to change out the cable as well as the lampholder, because e.g. a 60W bulb at 110V will draw twice as much current as a 60W/240V bulb.

HGerchikov

Absolutely would have been the way to do it - I took mine to a lamp shop in down town Oakville, hence the cost. But they do work and it was worth it to me. Now we have been here a while the Home Depot is where I would go too.

Monique_in_Canada

yes they will work, if u don't want to go to the bother of re-wiring them, just bring lots of English bulbs with ya (bayonet) of the highest wattage, they will shine half the brightness, and just change the plug!!!

Novocastrian

Actually, they'd shine at one quarter the brightness, since the light output is proportional to the square of the current though the filament, which would be about half of the design current.

mandymoochops

Are these those special gold and diamond encrusted lamps????? If not can I state the obvious and say maybe buy some new ones here?

If they are sentimental heirlooms then apologies and carry on as you were.

Oakvillian

sentimental heirlooms here (that's hard to type after a bottle or two of finest plonk from LCBO...). Not sentinental enough to pay someone else to do the work though - the sentimentality was OH's, so I reckoned I could get away with a DIY job. Seems to have worked- lights still work, she's still here

mandymoochops

I bet you had shaky hands though

stokesey

No not sentimental at all, but I like them and I'm starting to think if I can save a few quid be converting what I have then why not.

Looked on the Home Depot website and it looks like it'll only cost a few $ per lamp.

Cheers for the replies.

Greenhill

Doesn't everyone use [explosive, mercury containing] CFL's nowadays?

Tangram

Can you post a link to the item(s) ?