Overhead light keeps turning off
gale1965
10 years ago
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Comments (5)No, it isn't wireless. I kept complaining about this to my husband and when he was around it wouldn't do it. Then tonight he was standing over me when it happened and I said, "See! I told you it turns off and won't turn back on." So, he unplugged it from the back, got another mouse - I think this one is from his work pc and plugged it into the front temporarily until we get a new one this weekend. It would work again when I turned the power off, then turned it back on, but it was really a pain when I would be in the middle of a discussion forum like this one typing away and I couldn't click on "submit." hee-hee! So long story short - gonna get a new mouse. pj - Yes, I should blame the cat. He does get back there and messes with the cords. That does remind me of one of those stories that circulated around the office about ten years ago when the pc mouse had a roller ball. It had something to do with "How to change the mouse balls - gently turn your mouse over . . . press down and in a circular motion, remove the protective cover. Gently grasp the ball to remove it . . . " or something along those lines. It was hilarious! I wish I still had that story, but that is before e-mail got really popular and things like that were faxed or copied....See MoreCFLs in old overhead light/fan
Comments (5)My guess is you have a Casablanca fan with the wall switch that controls the brightness of the light and the speed of the fan. The CFL bulbs are not dimmable with the system you have. Also, I have been told that CFLs do not do well in fans as the fan motion tends to wear on these bulbs....See Morecircut breaker trips everytime I turn off lights
Comments (24)Same issue here, only my breaker box is 25' from the door of my crawlspace and I got tired of going under there and quit for today. Just left the light on while the switch says off. I am sure I wired the new light the same as the old one was wired. It's the end of a 3 fixture string. There are 2 black, a white, a grey, and a ground. The 2 blacks were with the black on the fixture. The white and grey were with the white of the fixture. The ground to the ground. I mean, that's simple, right? How could I have messed that up? Now the switch is in the off position and the light is on. Turn it off and trip the breaker. Keep the switch at off and reset the breaker and it trips immediately. I plan to undo and redo it tomorrow, but I don't fathom any new result. Any thoughts and/or advice? I am not a professional but I do reviews for Kichler so I've installed and/or replaced more ceiling fixtures than I can count and thus has never happened before. Thanks- Karen...See MoreAdding overhead lights where there were none.
Comments (5)You've connected the ceiling light in parallel with the switch. That puts it in series with the receptacle. That's not right. It's not even wrong. :) With the switch off, the mains voltage is divided between what's plugged into the receptacle, and the ceiling light. And it's divided in inverse proportion to the size of the loads. Assuming incandescent bulbs in both, plug a night light into the receptacle, and the night light will light up to nearly full brightness while the ceiling light will barely glow, if at all. Plug an electric heater into the receptacle, and the ceiling light will light up to nearly full brightness, but the heater won't do much. I suggest that you go to your local public library and check out a book on basic home electrical wiring. Read the entire book, especially any chapters on basic electrical circuit principles. Make sure you read about switch loops. By the time you get done with the book, you'll understand what you did wrong. :) If you're busy and don't have time for that (I understand!), it's probably better and safer to call in a pro. PS: Don't feel bad; I did something similar myself once, many many years ago. The house was wired with knob and tube. I was trying to install a new receptacle in the open-floor attic. (This was back when the code still allowed you to extend a K&T circuit with NM.) I thought I was connecting to wires that fed a receptacle in the wall of the room below, but I actually connected to a switch loop one stud bay over. Hilarity ensued, sort of....See Moregale1965
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