Hi,
Our house has modern wiring, it also has a new metal Consumer Unit, with a split rail, 2 x RCD and SPD.
The house has 2 lighting circuits, Ground Floor and First Floor.
All the bulbs in the house are LED, but some are better quality LED bulbs and four of the bulbs are cheap large "decorative" style LED bulbs from B&Q.
Sometimes, especially if the oven is on, i have noticed that the 4 B&Q LED bulbs, situated across 3 rooms and 3 seperate light switches will very slightly fluctuate or flicker or dim. It's not a severe fluctuation and it can be as little as once every few minutes.
Obviously the lights are on their own 6A circuit and the Oven/Hobbs are on their own 32A circuit.
The MCB's and RCD's have never tripped and nothing else is effedcted.
Other better quality LED lights such as all 5 outdoor spotlights, or the Phillips white LED lights in 3 other rooms are not effected.
It seems like there might be a very slight amount of voltage drop or voltage fluctuation that is only visually effecting these 4 B&Q LED decorative bulbs.
I don't think it's a loose wire on any of the individual 4 light fixings, as the unaffected lights in 2 other rooms on the Ground Floor are between the effected rooms / bulbs in terms of the order of the wiring for the GF lighting circuit.
But I can check the wiring in several places, including one junction box, all the switches, roses and the inside of the new consumer unit.
Thanks
Our house has modern wiring, it also has a new metal Consumer Unit, with a split rail, 2 x RCD and SPD.
The house has 2 lighting circuits, Ground Floor and First Floor.
All the bulbs in the house are LED, but some are better quality LED bulbs and four of the bulbs are cheap large "decorative" style LED bulbs from B&Q.
Sometimes, especially if the oven is on, i have noticed that the 4 B&Q LED bulbs, situated across 3 rooms and 3 seperate light switches will very slightly fluctuate or flicker or dim. It's not a severe fluctuation and it can be as little as once every few minutes.
Obviously the lights are on their own 6A circuit and the Oven/Hobbs are on their own 32A circuit.
The MCB's and RCD's have never tripped and nothing else is effedcted.
Other better quality LED lights such as all 5 outdoor spotlights, or the Phillips white LED lights in 3 other rooms are not effected.
It seems like there might be a very slight amount of voltage drop or voltage fluctuation that is only visually effecting these 4 B&Q LED decorative bulbs.
I don't think it's a loose wire on any of the individual 4 light fixings, as the unaffected lights in 2 other rooms on the Ground Floor are between the effected rooms / bulbs in terms of the order of the wiring for the GF lighting circuit.
But I can check the wiring in several places, including one junction box, all the switches, roses and the inside of the new consumer unit.
Thanks
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