light bulb keep flicking
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Is that flick when the lamp is ON or OFF ?
Low energy lamps can flash when the switch is OFF due to the current they get from the capacitive coupling from Live to Switched Live in the wiring to the switch.
Low energy lamps can flash when the switch is OFF due to the current they get from the capacitive coupling from Live to Switched Live in the wiring to the switch.
Are you lost? This is a UK forum. Let's get you moved to foreign parts.
- Talking to a young American co-worker on lunch break, I became aware that he believed that the currency in the UK was the US Dollar. In order to convince him otherwise, I showed him a pound note and explained in was worth $2.80 (those were the days).
Shaking his head slowly and with his expression a mixture of sadness and world-weariness, he looked at me as if I was deluded and said: "Well, that's what socialised medicine does to you!"
- I was on a training course in the USA once - people from all over the world were on it.
An American asked an Australian, in all seriousness "What language do you speak in Australia? Is it Italian?"
- Approximately 2 out of 3 Americans don't have passports.
- I expect Johnny Foreigner CFLs flash for the same reasons ours do.
