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On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:34:32 GMT, (Gena) wrote:

If you have a flickering refrigerator light due to a loose connection,
does the removal of the light bulb eliminate the threat of arcing?


I assume the bulb is the only thing intermittent, so it would be safe
to assume that it is on a parallel independent circuit. So the answer
is yes. It breaks the current path and stops the arcing