Silver Surfer wrote:

Oops. I should have revealed my ulterior motive. My daughter's
mother-in-law has an outside light fixture that eats incandescent bulbs for
some reason. I measured the voltage and found that it was 123 volts. No
other fixtures in the house eat bulbs like this one does. My wild guess is
that the house wiring (relatively new abode) may be miswired or defective in
some strange way. Would rather not spend a lot of time tracing it out while
possibly damaging the wallboard and such.


If some outlets read higher than others you probably have a problem
with the neutral connection. Either in the breaker box, or out by the
transformer. Either way, it needs fixed before it opens completely.
Even worse, you could have an electrical fire.

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