CFL bulbs
Have three of them in front of the outside of my house on a hard wired timer. Been there for a couple of years. Today I noticed that when they were off two of them were flickering a little. One more t...
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road-runner wrote:
I wonder if the timer uses a mechanical or electronic switch? The ones with electronic switches often leak a small amount of current to the load when shut off, relying on the load of an incandescent lamp to pull down the voltage. If an electronic device (like cfl or led lamp)is the only load, weird behavior can happen.
Edit: The post above this one came in while I was typing. I'm essentially saying the same thing as beemerphile1, as quoted above.
Ditto ^^^
FYI..I don't know what is worse on the site sometimes, the reading comprehension or the electrical advice/guessing :W
