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weird electrical issue in my house, two CFL lights on same breaker blink once in a while while turned off?
Its all new-ish wiring. There's never been any problems with the breaker tripping. One of the lights is wired to a 3-way switch, the other is just a bedroom light with a single switch. The CFL bulbs give off a brief dim flash every five seconds or so. It seems like the only possible problem could be a bad switch but crazy unlikely that two switches would be faulty in the exact same way. Any ideas?
3 Answers
- 7 years ago
figured it out.. the switches are illuminated. That style of switch uses the lamp wire as a neutral and the small amount of current flowing through slowly charges up the CFL's ballast. Illuminated switches don't work with CFLs unless a bleeder resister is added.
- Irv SLv 77 years ago
It's not in the switches. There's a mis-connection in a control wire
somewhere. What is operating when those flashes occur?
