“I have blown in insulation, could these start a fire, or are they rated and protected not to?”
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They are a retro fit style and do not get that hot at all. Your existing can light body will stay in place so that will also protect it from getting hot. You will just take the bulb out and screw in the adapter then plug in and push up. That's it.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, these are UL-Listed for meeting safety specifications.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The question can be read as contemplating the use of this lamp without a fixture, which would not be a safe use whether or not the space is insulted. It’s styled to include the decorative trim ring of a downlight fixture, but this isn’t a fixture, it’s a lamp. This lamp is safety agency listed for use in the place of a lamp in a “can” style downlight. If the can style downlight is listed for use in an insulated location, then the fixture will include the required thermal protection, typically an over-temperature snap disc thermo-switch that is either manually reset or self-resets when it has cooled by 40 or 50 degrees. This lamp may include self protection to shut itself off if it overheats, which has practical value, but lamps can be replaced, so the safety requirement is for the fixture to provide the thermal shut-off. On a purely practical basis, while all of this was settled on with 75W to 250W incandescant lamps in mind and it seems like a 9W lamp is unlikely to generate enough heat to cause anything to reach an unsafe temperature, when something does go wrong, a glass envelope lamp produces incombustible glass and a few grams of hot metal wire, but a plastic encapsulated electronic power supplies have failure modes that produce far more than 9W of watt heat and smoke.
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