On 05/04/2015 05:01 PM, Col. Edmund Burke wrote:
"Art Todesco" wrote in message ...
A friend had a fluorescent light do something strange. Here's his email:

Had to take the kitchen fluorescent light apart as one pair of the lamps started flickering and then went out. Had a hell of a time getting them out, as the socket was corroded and the lamps did NOT want to come out. Put the new ones in and found the one lamp would light about 8 inches in from each end and the rest was just a shadow. Never saw a symptom like that before. I figured that it was the ballast, as another new lamp did the same thing. When I got it apart, I discovered the wires just push in to the socket and seemed loose, but there was no release . The harder I pulled, the looser they got, but would not come out. Then I put the sockets on the lamps with the whole mess hanging by the wires. Everything worked fine, so I twisted the wires together to put some strain on the socket connection and put it back together. It is working OK now. The ends of the lamps get VERY hot. I dont remember that happening on the older fixtures, do you?

Strange .... any ideas?



LOL! Make sure the number to the FIRE DEPARTMENT is handy, ding-a-ling!

I dunno, maybe when the wires get hot enough they'll weld themselves to the socket contacts?