Can Wiring for halogen lights be used for LED lights?

[jdmmdm3]

We are in the process of resurfacing our 14 year old pool with the pebble look from WetEdge and want to include installing LED color lights. The contractor is telling me he needs to rerun wiring for the LED lights to the panel, which is currently installed. I tried to have him explain why the wiring needs to be replaced if there is no indication there is a defect. My thinking is the wiring would be the same. The current halogen lights are working fine. I am looking at a price of $800 per light for the purchase and installation of the lights, wiring & control.

Any advise/suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Thank you:cop:

 

[CJadamec]

The code for under water lights is rather picky about things. If the new LED light has it's own new wire you must remove the old wire and run the new wire. You are not allowed to alter the light housing or wire in any way.

If all you are doing is putting in new bulbs in the existing housing than no you don't need new wire.

 

[patrick3229]

Hi Jdmmdm3,

Are you sure that you have a halgon style bulb? Halgon bulbs normally look like the bulbs on the left side of the photo below. Most pool lights use flood bulbs, which is the bulb furthest to the right, and if your light uses a flood style bulb then you could just replace your bulb with a PureColors LED Color Changing Bulb which is around $150.



If you don't have a flood style bulb then you will need to replace the entire light fixture if you want to go to LED as your contractor indicated. The cord to the light is attached to the light and sealed to the light fixture which means you can't cut the cord and then splice the cord to a new light fixture as this is pretty unsafe. You would need to pull a whole new light fixture in that case. Here is a Video Showing How a New Pool Light is Pulled which you may find helpful.

I hope this helps, also if you could post some photos of your lights pulled out of the pool that would be helpful.

 

[jdmmdm3]

This has been very helpful. Thank you for the quick response.