Hello,

My internal flood lights turn on, but on very very low. A week back one of the bulbs was gone, but at the same time all the other bulbs (7 out of a total 8) were gone very low - I thought it was just a matter of changing the faulty bulb, but even now the light is very low - i.e. it does turn on, but it is like as if it was on a dimmer turned down to minimum.
The floodlight bulbs are between 45 and 30 w.

Could anyone tell me what is going on?

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Sturban wrote:
Hello,

My internal flood lights turn on, but on very very low. A week back one of the bulbs was gone,

Who took it?

but at the same time all the other bulbs (7 out of a total 8) were gone
very low - I thought it was just a matter of changing the faulty bulb,
but even now the light is very low - i.e. it does turn on, but it is
like as if it was on a dimmer turned down to minimum.
The floodlight bulbs are between 45 and 30 w.

Could anyone tell me what is going on?





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On 1/31/2014 2:27 PM, Sturban wrote:
Hello,

My internal flood lights turn on, but on very
very low. A week back one of the bulbs was gone,
but at the same time all the other bulbs (7 out
of a total 8) were gone very low - I thought it
was just a matter of changing the faulty bulb,
but even now the light is very low - i.e. it does
turn on, but it is like as if it was on a dimmer
turned down to minimum.
The floodlight bulbs are between 45 and 30 w.

Could anyone tell me what is going on?


It's either got bad power, bad neutral, bad
module, or bad sockets. Possibly bad bulbs.

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On 01/31/2014 01:27 PM, Sturban wrote:
Hello,

My internal flood lights turn on, but on very very low. A week back one of the bulbs was gone, but at the same time all the other bulbs (7 out of a total 8) were gone very low - I thought it was just a matter of changing the faulty bulb, but even now the light is very low - i.e. it does turn on, but it is like as if it was on a dimmer turned down to minimum.
The floodlight bulbs are between 45 and 30 w.

Could anyone tell me what is going on?




A bulb does not fail by having low output.

Though most anything is possible, you certainly would not have all of
them failing at once. There is obviously a bad connection in some part
of the circuit common to them all.

It could very well be a common ground, I'd check there first.

On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:14:40 -0600, philo* wrote:

On 01/31/2014 01:27 PM, Sturban wrote:
Hello,

My internal flood lights turn on, but on very very low. A week back one of the bulbs was gone, but at the same time all the other bulbs (7 out of a total 8) were gone very low - I thought it was just a matter of changing the faulty bulb, but even now the light is very low - i.e. it does turn on, but it is like as if it was on a dimmer turned down to minimum.
The floodlight bulbs are between 45 and 30 w.

Could anyone tell me what is going on?




A bulb does not fail by having low output.

Though most anything is possible, you certainly would not have all of
them failing at once. There is obviously a bad connection in some part
of the circuit common to them all.

It could very well be a common ground, I'd check there first.
Sure sounds like a bad neutral. If whatever is on the other side
draws more power than the floods, the floods will get brighter and
what is on the other side will get lower voltage.

wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:14:40 -0600, philo wrote:

On 01/31/2014 01:27 PM, Sturban wrote:
Hello,

My internal flood lights turn on, but on very very low. A week back one of the bulbs was gone, but at the same time all the other bulbs (7 out of a total 8) were gone very low - I thought it was just a matter of changing the faulty bulb, but even now the light is very low - i.e. it does turn on, but it is like as if it was on a dimmer turned down to minimum.
The floodlight bulbs are between 45 and 30 w.

Could anyone tell me what is going on?




A bulb does not fail by having low output.

Though most anything is possible, you certainly would not have all of
them failing at once. There is obviously a bad connection in some part
of the circuit common to them all.

It could very well be a common ground, I'd check there first.
Sure sounds like a bad neutral. If whatever is on the other side
draws more power than the floods, the floods will get brighter and
what is on the other side will get lower voltage.

On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:27:11 -0800 (PST), Sturban
wrote:

Hello,

My internal flood lights turn on, but on very very low. A week back one of the bulbs was gone, but at the same time all the other bulbs (7 out of a total 8) were gone very low - I thought it was just a matter of changing the faulty bulb, but even now the light is very low - i.e. it does turn on, but it is like as if it was on a dimmer turned down to minimum.
The floodlight bulbs are between 45 and 30 w.

Could anyone tell me what is going on?

Which neighbor was the missing bulb pointed at? Ask him.

On 1/31/2014 1:27 PM, Sturban wrote:
Hello,

My internal flood lights turn on, but on very very low. A week back one of the bulbs was gone, but at the same time all the other bulbs (7 out of a total 8) were gone very low - I thought it was just a matter of changing the faulty bulb, but even now the light is very low - i.e. it does turn on, but it is like as if it was on a dimmer turned down to minimum.
The floodlight bulbs are between 45 and 30 w.

Could anyone tell me what is going on?


No dimmers (can't imagine you wouldn't think of that)

If you unscrew 3 bulbs do the rest get brighter (open neutral or high
resistance connection)

Voltage H-N at bulb socket?

if not around 120 - voltage socket H to fixture ground (which is
probably easily available.

And if necessary voltage from an extension cord H to bulb socket N.

On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:49:22 -0600, bud-- wrote:

On 1/31/2014 1:27 PM, Sturban wrote:
Hello,

My internal flood lights turn on,

How internal are they? Checking out your digestion?

but on very very low. A week back one of the bulbs was gone, but at the same time all the other bulbs (7 out of a total 8) were gone very low - I thought it was just a matter of changing the faulty bulb, but even now the light is very low - i.e. it does turn on, but it is like as if it was on a dimmer turned down to minimum.

Is there a dimmer in the circuit?

The floodlight bulbs are between 45 and 30 w.

Could anyone tell me what is going on?


No dimmers (can't imagine you wouldn't think of that)

If you unscrew 3 bulbs do the rest get brighter (open neutral or high
resistance connection)

They would get brighter becuse fewer bulbs would have to have their
current go through the bottleneck with is the bad connection to the
neutral. So the voltage drop there would be smaller and the bulbs
still screwed in would be brighter than they were.

Voltage H-N at bulb socket?

By which you mean Hot to Neutral?

if not around 120 - voltage socket H to fixture ground (which is
probably easily available.

This brings up a question I've had for a long time. Even if there is
a high resistance connection to neutral, one of your suspicions above,
won't hot to neutral measure as full voltage when the only current
through the circuit is the tiny meter current, not enough to make a
voltage drop in the high resistance part of the circuit?

BTW, if the OP is in Ireland, is 120 the normal voltage, or is it 220?

Are there any other differences from light circuits in the US, where
most posters come from?

And if necessary voltage from an extension cord H to bulb socket N.

Hot to neutral? I thought you meant connecting the extension cord Hot
to the socket Neutral, but on second thought, you must mean with a light
bulb in between.