Ghost Lights

Puzzle. Weigh in. This is momentous.

Eight lights. Four on rear switch. Two on front switch. Two on shared front and rear switches. Periodically one or even two won't come on. Can be any of the eight lights (*update* eleven lights in the unit)-- no rhyme. Crappy fixtures? Insufficient voltage? Poor grounding? Satan? What do YOU think? Help your fellow ghost hunters figure out these frisky abominations of nature.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• compact fluorescent
• cfl
• crappy fixtures
• electrical wiring
• random outages

[fondueset01]

You may have too many lights. Its important to examine your relationship to lights - not just these lights - but lights, and perhaps 'light' in general. There is also the question of electricity - and ceilings. What does a ceiling really mean to you?

[laphotoguy]

You have a wiring issue with the common wire that connects all the fixtures. My guess is that the switch is a single pole switch and only breaks one leg of the cirucit which leaves one hot while the circuit breaker is a doble pole which clears the circuit so it resets. Keep in mind that the breaker switch is not meant to be switched back and forth repeatedly. In short, you have a wiring problem.

[cjlg999]

Ah...not a defect ... it's a feature

Very Green ... rolling light resting.

Congrats!