Kevin Ricks wrote:
Tony Hwang wrote:
wrote:
It is about 60F in the garage. The CFL bulbs in the outdoor fixtures
work fine. They are a little slow to fully light, but the garage door
opener doesn't light at all.
Hi,
My guess is the light socket in the opener is contolled by a solid state
relay rather than electro mechanical relay. Then it won't light for
sure. For one thing SS relay needs certain amount(Watts) of minimum
load to activate.
If he has a mechanical relay, it will make a click sound when the light
goes on or off. If electronic you won't hear anything.
Press the light button on the wall switch if it has one. Or wait for the
light to go off and listen for the click sound.
As others have said, it's probably that the shape of the CFL base is too
bulky and will not properly seat in the socket. I have had this problem
with other CFL's and table lamp sockets especially with the 3-way CFL
bulbs.
Kevin
If that's the problem, you might see if you can bend the center contacts
in the sockets up unough to make contact with the CFL's tip contacts.
UNPLUG the opener before you try that. If you bend about 1/4" of the end
of an opened up paperclip at a right angle you'll have made a tool which
can be used to pull up the socket's center contact a bit.
HTH,
Jeff
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Jeffry Wisnia
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