There's some fresnel recessed cans on the CCRI campus in the bathrooms. Most do not work though (lamps removed or dead). The ones that do work have 60W= LEDs or CFLs in them and are useless (they're supposed to have 150 or 200W incandescent lamps). Most of the bathrooms get their only light from the fluorescent vanities over the sinks. The bigger bathrooms use two 2X F25T8 fixtures end-to-end while the smaller bathrooms use one 2X F32T8 vanity fixture. One bathroom has two F25T8 wrap lights installed on the wall over the sink in place of the original vanities (the vanities were converted from T12 to T. I guess the original vanity was in too rough shape to convert.

Only some of the bathrooms have the recessed cans. If there was something to stand up on I'd sneak some bulbs in with me and get up there and change the bulbs since some of the bathrooms are single-occupant, so you lock the door when you go in. So I'd have total privacy to open up the fixtures and change the bulbs. Granted I'd probably install 13W CFLs myself (unless I can find higher wattage ones cheap) so they'd be useless but at least the fixtures would be lit. The bathroom I have in mind has two recessed cans and has the lock on the main door. There's a big bathroom that had three recessed cans (all out) but it's multi-user. The girls room next door has three recessed cans that all work (my last class got out at 10:30, a half hour after the building closes, so I poked my head in the door to check it out lol. I didn't go inside but I could see the three cans, all lit with LED bulbs (they were whiter than incandescent or halogen but not pink like CFL) and they were pathetically dim.

Sounds like they need some help!

Eventually I plan to go around the entire six-story building and venture into every boy's or unisex bathroom and check for can lights lol. I've only been into four bathrooms. Two were unisex single-occupant (one having the fresnel cans, one just having the vanity) and the other two were multi-occupant. One of the larger bathrooms was on the 2nd floor and had three non-working cans. The other large bathroom was on the 6th floor and had working cans that were outshined by the T8 vanity light over the sinks. I want to see how bright these things are with the proper lamps. I can only relamp the bathrooms I can lock at the main door though so no one catches me relamping. IDK if I could get in trouble for that ("vandalism"? lol)

Mike, you're crazy! In a good way though! Do you presently live on campus or are you a commuter student? 4 year college or some sort of trade school?

No they don't have dorms. I'm only 10-15 minutes from home. I'm there for just two semesters, getting a certificate. I'll by done by Spring 2017. I'm not gonna relamp all the cans, just ones where I can lock the door and find a stool to use. TBH I could probably bring a folding chair in the building and no one would question a thing lol. They have cameras at the entrances and probably inside (they're hidden if there are any) but no security officers and not a lot of nosy teachers. Most mind their own.

At my school, there's a bunch of disconnected MV cans in places like in the eaves, along walls in the library and hallways and I think originally in the washrooms over the entrance. The washrooms ones got covered with a PL-13 drum light so I can't really be 100% sure. I rescued a 100w MV lamp from one but it was from a stairwell that's never used so I won't get busted rescuing bulbs. That being said I rescued a bunch of other lighting stuff from school, including a couple exit signs and a dimming ballast which turned out to be partially dead.

Ah yeah it's always odd when they stick lights under recessed cans but at the same time, if it's done right you'll never know there was a recessed can originally. I never cared a whole lot for recessed cans but now with LEDs, and being how directional they are, I'm hoping to see more recessed can lights in homes.

I've seen it done plenty of times. As for recessed lighting in homes, it seems like they're really popular in most rooms nowadays! I've seen many kitchen remodels in '70s-'80s era homes that previously had the "Illuminated fluorescent drop ceiling" (the house I grew up in had such a ceiling in the kitchen) to remove that and install 4 recessed cans. However, I don't think it's as bright. Six or even eight F40T12s replaced by four 65w R30s? I don't think so!

Yeah the PL-13 drum lights have a larger footprint than the can it replaced so you can't really see the can. Speaking of installing fixtures over recessed cans, you can buy kits designed for that purpose. Most places I've seen just screw a piece of plywood or sheet metal over the can. Sometimes they just screw the fixture itself over the can.

Yeah I remember in the 2000s it was really common for new houses and renovations to use those a lot of those 4" mini GU10 halogen cans in the foyer, living room, kitchen. Not sure if they still use them now of if LED recessed lights replaced then. My kitchen still has the original illuminated ceiling from 1982 although it got new prismatic 12 diffuser panels and a retrofit from 3x F40T12 to 2x F32T8. One of the fixtures has issues with the cathode heating circuit and was eating though lamps. The F40T12 ballasts were those residential LPF ballasts that drove the lamps at 30w so two F32T8s driven at NBF matched the brightness. I took the extra strip and moved it to the garage.

To each their own, but I personally abhor the circular PL13 drum lights; I always thought of them as very clinical looking. That said, I like many other types of industrial fixtures; turrets, strip lights, etc. are some of my favorites, and my favorite incandescent fixture would be the vapor-tight, explosion-proof style with the "Cage". Might have something to do with my maritime heritage.

@ Joe: Yeah I've seen those but not sure if they've ever been used here before. I had always thought the fixture was just screwed into the ceiling right where the can goes. I guess those cans would be the "Code Way" to connect a standard fixture to a recessed can light.

@ Andy: I'm with you, I'm not a fan of those drum lights except in areas where I find linear fluorescents OK for general lighting. (so like a basement, basement bathroom, laundry room, basement/garage hallway, etc) and I've always liked the circline drum lights better than the 3X PL ones. Nick had said that about the vaportights I have in the basement, saying they look a bit odd indoors. I actually can relate, but those fixtures are "memory lane" camp fixtures so I want to proudly display them, complete with buzzy ballasts (but 40W lamps not 34W lamps).