On Jul 22, 5:00*pm, bob haller wrote:
On Jul 21, 2:44 pm, The Daring Dufas
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wrote:
Came home tonight to find myCFbulb on my exterior door light
flickering and barely glowing. Assumed the new bulb was bad till I got
inside to turn off the switch and found it already off.

I guess I will have to check the voltage at that outlet. How wierd.

Its hard to reach lamp is over steps

Anyone else have this happen?

I've seen it happen with regular florescent fixtures
when the neutral instead of the hot lead is switched.
I know an idiot who thinks it's better to switch the
neutral. He drinks a lot and I wont let him touch any
of my wiring. *snicker*

TDD

I have been VERY busy but hope to look at this soon. Last nite it
wasnt flickering/ Its in a outdoor light fixture.- Hide quoted text -

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One of my neighbors installed a light switch to his shed in his house.
Power was already in the shed so all he did was run the switch circuit
back to the house. It worked fine with an incandescent bulb but made a
CFC flicker when the switch was off. When it was wired to a switch in
the shed it worked fine with either the CFC or the incandescent. Im
thinking it must be because of the wire to wire capacitance of the
cable. It may be a fun experiment to try different values of C in
series with a CFC to see if this can be replicated.

Jimmie