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How to replace "irreplaceable" bulb in philips wake-up light HF3480

Approx. 3 years ago I bought the Philips wake-up light, type HF3480. Now, the lamp inside the device broke down and strangely enough Philips claims that "because of safety reasons" the lamp cannot be replaced, not by the user nor by Philips themselves. This means if I want my light back that I have to throw away/replace this 3 year old alarm clock of which the alarm & clock itself works just perfectly fine.

In the Netherlands even a TV show gave room for this stupidity of Philips. So I thought, this is a challenge for real fixers! I wouldn't know where to start or with what to replace the light bulb, but maybe one of you can help me with this quest?

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Does anyone know what replacement bulb is needed for the HF3520 model? Desperate to fix rather than chuck away!

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suzanne, the bulbs for the HF3480 are "Philips MASTER PL-C 4P, 26 Watt - 26W / G24q-3 / 827" and are readily available at places like this. Sounds like Philips glued those into the bases, so may be a heatgun is in order to replace those. Take a look on here for a bit more information. Now I want one just to tear it down and just because Philips says it can't be done:)) Take plenty of pictures and create a guide while you are fixing it.Hope this helps, good luck.

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Thanks oldturkey. So, what do you think about their claim that for safety reasons they glue the bulb into the socket? After removing and replacing the lightbulb, do you think it needs to be glued back again? I wouldn't want it to catch fire while waking me up... would be an unwanted side effect :-)

Any other opinions on that?

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Suzanne, from looking at it, I do not believe that it would cause a fire etc. It looks like they are glued to keep them from falling and breaking in due to the upright position. Thank you for accepting my answer :-)

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I have just replaced the bulb in my Philips wake-up light hf3475. Hurrah! It was quite a task and involved ungluing the existing bulb after taking off the back and lifting off the white rounded plastic cover at the base of the bulb. I replaced it with a Philips master pl-c 4p bulb 26 watt 1800 lumen and is now working perfectly. quite an advanced tinkering session 4 for a beginner I would say, and ideally you need a soldering iron to connect what I think is an earth wore with a little cage that slips between the the bars of the bulb- but I got a feeling this might not be necessary I just used crocodile clip to hold the contacts together.

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I just replaced a bulb on a defective HF3480 that I bought from ebay for 5 euros.

Removing the bulb was pretty hard. In short: Remove the rubber feet, uncrew the bottom screws, use a small screwdriver to lever up the top cover, unscrew the metal warning sign (which also holds it together at the top), pull on the plastic housing until you start unclicking the plastic hooks on both sides. The plastic is surprisingly durable, but proceed with care. Once the covers are off, you are looking straight at the bulb.

Do not pull on the actual bulb. You will break it and have a much harder time going further (I tried, believe me). Unscrew the white bottom plastic cover around the bulb (at the bottom there is the power supply - do not touch anything). You do not need to lift the black cage. Instead unscrew the two white outer casing parts around the bulb. The glue covering the base is quite soft, you can remove some of it with a small screwdriver to make the process easier. Remove the two white brackets by separating the interlocking "arms", after that you can pull them off. Now grab the base of the bulb, push the two black hooks back and pull gently. The bulb's "feet" will hold onto the connector plate very strongly. I pushed a screwdriver in between and started wiggling next to one foot at a time. I finally got it off after a few attempts.

I then bought a random OSRAM G24q-3 26W bulb from the local hardware shop. This is a slightly different looking type of bulb. It did not fit quite exactly, as the base of the new bulb is half a millimeter too tall. The hooks on the black plastic base do not reach. You could use a file to remove a tiny bit of the hooks, but you have very limited space to work in there. It is possible to just leave it like this, screw down the two white brackets (which also hold down the base) if you can live with it not looking straight, you will likely never see it again... and the brackets' grip of the bulb is even much stronger now due to the hooks being squeezed in between.

Whatever you do, make sure to attach the bulb FIRMLY. I tried with the bulb just pushed into the sockets and while it SEEMS fine, the bulb randomly stopped working after a short time and required a power cycle of the lamp to work again. I believe the (quite significant) heat output of the bulb may cause thermal expansion somewhere so that the feet can ever so slightly loose contact. Screwing it down using the white brackets worked. I also bent the "metal arms" of the connector plate a little towards the hole, no clue if that was what did it.

The new bulb seems to work perfectly. I have had it burn in on max brightness an hour without a problem.

The entire process is not for the faint of heart, but does not require a lot of technical understanding. While I enjoy tinkering, I did not enjoy this one. An example in planned obsolescence and anti-repair design.

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@jpa98467 that is awesome!!! Hope you took lots of pictures so we can finally have a proper guide https://ifixit.com/Guide/new :-) You'd think that after 10 years somebody creates one....

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Just disassemled our broken HF34745 and found a PL-C 26W/827/4P from Phillips, covered in glue. See a picture here

Just ordered a new one and will see whether it fits and works. Will let you know.

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The bulb arrived today and works perfectly fine.

So once you get all the glue removed, you will be able to replace the bulb anytime it breaks in the future.

4€ instead of 150€ for a new one seems like a good deal to me.

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