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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Vulcan Rider wrote:Don't skew what you said. You said "check the ground". This is AC, the lamp could care less what side of the bulb neutral comes up. Its a lamp, period.SCVJeff wrote:
It doesn't know and either can be corroded, loose, etc., with the same indications.
Not true.
If the hot side is open, the whole assembly is dead with respect to earth ground.
If the neutral or ground is open, the whole assembly is potentially hot with respect to earth ground......and that can cause CFLs and LEDs to glow slightly. There is always some leakage resistance to earth ground present although it might be extremely high.
