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Let's see if you're smarter/faster than FB. The fluorescent light in my kitchen only lights halfway about 2/3 of the time.

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Aug 9 '09, 20:06

I changed the tubes yesterday. It worked fine before that.

I also put a pair of identical tubes in the bathroom, and that light's working fine.

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change the igniter" or what you call that little round thing somewhere in the lights socktes -- nm - Danedukenuuk Aug 10, 02:25
It's possible that you have a bad ballast. More likely that you have a bad socket. You know the tubes in the bathroom - TWuG Aug 9, 20:11 4
- it's a pair of bulbs. they're working together. I don't think it's a bad bulb or they'd be flickering independently, right? - loosilu Aug 9, 20:13 3
  - No, one bulb can cause problems with both. It's a circuit thing. - TWuG Aug 9, 20:28 2
    - I noticed that removing one of them made both go out, so I switched them. no difference. -- nm - loosilu Aug 9, 20:29 1
      - Definitely, one bulb will affect both. If you put the bathroom bulbs in that fixture and have the same problem, it's probably the ballast. -- nm - TWuG Aug 9, 21:12
so either its a bad bulb, or you didnt get it connected properly. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 9, 20:08 1
- I thought about the connection and redid it about 5 times. no help. Maybe it is a bad bulb. - loosilu Aug 9, 20:09
So you're getting 1/6 the light? -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 20:07 2
- it's hard to tell, since the flickering is giving me seizures. -- nm - loosilu Aug 9, 20:08
- math fail - 1/3. -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 20:07

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