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jimloveuk
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 Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:19 am Post subject: Ceiling lights going on and off irregularly |
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| The lights in our kitchen ceiling go on and off every several minutes with no discernable pattern. Could this be loose wires or is there some other possibility? |
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vince knight
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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Are they low voltage downlights?
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wezza79
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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Apologies for chipping in Jim, but I was about to post this exact same problem, so thought we might both find the answer!
We have downlighters in our kitchen, bathroom, hall and living room. When we first moved into our flat earlier last year we thought it was just that the bulbs had gone, but having replaced the bulbs the problem's the same.
Some of them just won't come on at all. Some light up if you let them hang down from their fittings/brackets, some come on if you prod them with a stick, and more recently, some come on and off of their own accord.
The lounge and kitchen ones are on a dimmer switch, the others on a normal switch.
Is it likely to be loose connections to each individual bulb, or does the whole flat need rewiring?!
Happy to start a new post if that's easier, but hope you can help either way. |
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vince knight
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This one sounds like loose connections to me.
Vince
| wezza79 wrote: | Apologies for chipping in Jim, but I was about to post this exact same problem, so thought we might both find the answer!
We have downlighters in our kitchen, bathroom, hall and living room. When we first moved into our flat earlier last year we thought it was just that the bulbs had gone, but having replaced the bulbs the problem's the same.
Some of them just won't come on at all. Some light up if you let them hang down from their fittings/brackets, some come on if you prod them with a stick, and more recently, some come on and off of their own accord.
The lounge and kitchen ones are on a dimmer switch, the others on a normal switch.
Is it likely to be loose connections to each individual bulb, or does the whole flat need rewiring?!
Happy to start a new post if that's easier, but hope you can help either way. |
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vince knight
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject: Re: Ceiling lights going on and off irregularly |
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This one sounds like the transformer is either under insulation or to close to the lamp and is switching on and of with the termal overheat in the transformer.
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| jimloveuk wrote: | | The lights in our kitchen ceiling go on and off every several minutes with no discernable pattern. Could this be loose wires or is there some other possibility? |
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