![]() It should be noted that the one inch thickness shown includes the tabs on the sides, onto which the spring-loaded clips are placed. Go to the Amazon page linked above to see larger images: ![]() Here are two views of a single LED panel light of the type we used. After some searching we found a five-inch square LED Panel Light on Amazon (link removed because it now goes to a different size light, but this one may be similar to the one we used), and figured out that two of them would fit quite nicely into the opening in the grille. We started wondering if maybe some kind of LED lighting would fit into the opening where the lens is supposed to go. ![]() Since paying that kind of money for a relatively small piece of glass or plastic didn’t appeal to us, we took a closer look at the grille that the lens fits into, which looks like the image at the right when there’s no glass installed. Even a translucent plastic replacement (that in our opinion doesn’t look nearly as good as the original glass) costs $58! The first online seller we came across wanted about $90 – that’s not a typo, ninety bucks for just the glass lens! And we found other sellers charging even more! Look it up for yourself if you like, the part number of the glass lens is S84999000 (some sources leave off the leading “S”) and the fan/light model number is LS100L (sometimes hyphenated as LS-100L, which according to this PDF document is similar to other NuTone models LS80L, LS80LF, and LS100LF, at least with regard to the grille and lens used). Broan-NuTone), the company that manufactured the fan/light, no longer makes or sells the glass lens, so the only sources are online sellers who apparently think that glass is as valuable as gold, or something like that. So no big deal, we thought, just buy a replacement lens – it should only cost a few bucks it’s just a piece of glass, right? Except that NuTone (a.k.a. Gravity sucks sometimes, but then so does poor product design. The problem with this particular model, a NuTone LS100L, is that it contains a booby trap for the unwary – a glass lens that isn’t independently secured within the plastic grille, and therefore can fall out the minute you attempt to release the metal reflector so that you can replace the bulb! And fall out it did, painfully striking a foot on the way down before shattering into many pieces when it hit the bathtub surface. ![]() One of us was attempting to replace a burned out light bulb in a bathroom exhaust fan/light combo. ![]()
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