Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

13

Time Required

                          15 minutes

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Introduction

What you need

Step 1

              Main board
  • WARNING Make sure that the power cord of the lamp is unplugged and thus you will not encounter any live wire that tend to hurt…
  • Stand the lamp up on a table and slightly press on the top gray panel of the lamp.

WARNING Make sure that the power cord of the lamp is unplugged and thus you will not encounter any live wire that tend to hurt…

Stand the lamp up on a table and slightly press on the top gray panel of the lamp.

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Step 2

  • Turn the lid anticlockwise.
  • The top can now be easily removed.

Turn the lid anticlockwise.

The top can now be easily removed.

Step 3

  • Take off the bulb from the socket.
  • By means of a long Philips screwdriver remove the 3 screws that holds the GU5.3 light bulb socket in place.

Take off the bulb from the socket.

By means of a long Philips screwdriver remove the 3 screws that holds the GU5.3 light bulb socket in place.

Step 4

  • Lay the lamp down on the table.
  • With a small flat screwdriver peel off the four rubber feet hiding screws of the lamp bottom panel.

Lay the lamp down on the table.

With a small flat screwdriver peel off the four rubber feet hiding screws of the lamp bottom panel.

Step 5

  • With a long Philips screwdriver remove the four screws from the deep holes of the bottom panel.

With a long Philips screwdriver remove the four screws from the deep holes of the bottom panel.

Step 6

  • With a small flat screwdriver remove the bottom trim by gently levering at the snaps joining it with the command unit.

With a small flat screwdriver remove the bottom trim by gently levering at the snaps joining it with the command unit.

Step 7

  • Carefully remove the bottom trim.

Carefully remove the bottom trim.

Step 8

  • Locate the 8 plastic snap-ins that hold the diffuser attached to the bottom board of the lamp.
  • These snap-ins are strongly attaching the diffuse to the bottom board and we may have to break one or two of them in order to separate the diffuser.

Locate the 8 plastic snap-ins that hold the diffuser attached to the bottom board of the lamp.

These snap-ins are strongly attaching the diffuse to the bottom board and we may have to break one or two of them in order to separate the diffuser.

Step 9

  • Cut one or two plastic snap-ins with a box-cutter.
  • This will ease to free the other plastic snap-ins without any other risk of damage. Philips must have designed this so that the lamp can not be serviced.

Cut one or two plastic snap-ins with a box-cutter.

This will ease to free the other plastic snap-ins without any other risk of damage. Philips must have designed this so that the lamp can not be serviced.

Step 10

  • With a small straight screwdriver free the remaining 6 snaps by simultaneously press each snap and pull the diffuser off the bottom board.

With a small straight screwdriver free the remaining 6 snaps by simultaneously press each snap and pull the diffuser off the bottom board.

Step 11

  • Smoothly pull off the main board from the diffuser.
  • On the figure note the snap-ins in green that remain intact from the previous step and the snap-in in orange that was cut.

Smoothly pull off the main board from the diffuser.

On the figure note the snap-ins in green that remain intact from the previous step and the snap-in in orange that was cut.

Step 12

  • With a pair of scissors cut the plastic clip fastener that ties the two wires of the bulb socket.
  • This step is necessary to loose the main board.

With a pair of scissors cut the plastic clip fastener that ties the two wires of the bulb socket.

This step is necessary to loose the main board.

Step 13

  • Now we can go ahead with the fixing of the electronic board.

Now we can go ahead with the fixing of the electronic board.

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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Alex - Nov 25, 2014

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I would suggest following the steps in a different order:

remove bottom trim

remove diffuser

then remove the bulb & socket, and the 4 screws from the bottom which will allow access to the main board.

Victor - Feb 18, 2015

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Hi,

The guide was very helpful as I just received such lamp for checking from one friend.

I would make only make one correction: you do not have to cut the plastic snap-ins, none of them.

If you use an IPhone opening toll kit, with those plastic levers as here:

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then you can open it easy, without any scratches.

kostermw - Aug 22, 2015

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Excellent guide. I did, however, not have to cut off any off the plastic snap-ins from step 9. Used a bigger screwdriver and gently used a bit of force, and one-by-one they came off.

Chris Mair - Feb 11, 2016

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im wondering whether its possible to overwrite the wake sounds…

Griffin - Oct 8, 2016

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Thank you so much for this guide. Was just about to give up on my lamp and buy and inferior led version when I found this.

These steps also work for the 3740 but the tabs holding the shade on (steps 8-10) are a different style. More like the ones on the bottom trim piece. Had to really work them and muscle that part off.

My ceramic bulb holder is severely corroded to the point where the light will only turn on if you jiggle the bulb. A little sad to see that the wires going to it are permanently attached on both ends. Now that the whole thing is apart. I’m going to see if I can source a new bulb holder and splice it onto the top…