Change Recessed Light To Pendant Light

Leave existing socket in place.
Change recessed light to pendant light. It is basically a screw on light bulb without the bulb but with wires. Remove recessed fixture remove existing recessed fixture by twisting out light bulb turning and removing casing and releasing clips that hold recessed light shell to socket. Step 2 open the recessed light conversion kit. Disconnect and remove the trim from the recessed fixture.
2 unscrew the recessed light bulb from the can light and then remove the trim kit typically this round trim piece just snaps in and out. Preassemble the mounting bracket which will support the new pendant light. Better safe than sorry. Screw that into the socket.
If only these worked anywhere nearly as easily. The design is horrendous and dangerous. Turn off the electricity to the light fixture circuit at the main electrical panel. Steps to convert a recessed light to a pendant light.
Install recessed fixture converter. If not when you install the pendant then eventually as gravity works on it and temperature and humidity fluctuate. Unless the can for the recessed light is fixed to the framing of your house or at the very least to your ceiling the pendant light will pull the can out of the ceiling eventually. Unscrew the lightbulbs from the recessed fixture.