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* light bulb blinking after power is turned offLenny Miller
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 by: Lenny Miller - Sat, 30 Apr 2022 21:23 UTC

I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?

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Subject: Re: light bulb blinking after power is turned off
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 by: Dean Hoffman - Sat, 30 Apr 2022 23:30 UTC

On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 4:23:32 PM UTC-5, Lenny Miller wrote:
> I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
> switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
> before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
> by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?

What happens if you move the bulb to other positions in the circuit? What
happens if you put an incandescent bulb in the circuit?

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 by: Marilyn Manson - Sat, 30 Apr 2022 23:59 UTC

On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 5:23:32 PM UTC-4, Lenny Miller wrote:
> I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
> switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
> before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
> by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?

Do you have an illuminated light switch?

Is this a new occurrence? When did it start? What changes were made?

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 by: Ed Pawlowski - Sun, 1 May 2022 01:34 UTC

On 4/30/2022 5:23 PM, Lenny Miller wrote:
> I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
> switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
> before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
> by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?

Many times this is due to the circuit inside the CFL charging up, even
when the bulb is off

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 by: Lenny Miller - Sun, 1 May 2022 02:11 UTC

On 4/30/2022 7:59 PM, Marilyn Manson wrote:
> On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 5:23:32 PM UTC-4, Lenny Miller wrote:
>> I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
>> switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
>> before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
>> by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?
>
> Do you have an illuminated light switch?
>
> Is this a new occurrence? When did it start? What changes were made?

Yes. I do have an illuminated light switch. Not sure when it started. I
just noticed it.

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Subject: Re: light bulb blinking after power is turned off
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 by: Lenny Miller - Sun, 1 May 2022 02:15 UTC

On 4/30/2022 7:30 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
> On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 4:23:32 PM UTC-5, Lenny Miller wrote:
>> I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
>> switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
>> before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
>> by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?
>
> What happens if you move the bulb to other positions in the circuit? What
> happens if you put an incandescent bulb in the circuit?

I swapped it with one of the three LED bulbs. When I screwed in this
bulb and the switch was off, it blinked once. Seems like I'm getting
free electricity, albeit not much.

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 by: Bob F - Sun, 1 May 2022 04:16 UTC

On 4/30/2022 2:23 PM, Lenny Miller wrote:
> I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
> switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
> before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
> by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?

X10 light stitches do this because they pass a small current to see if a
device is switched on manually, That small current is enough to flash
CFL's. Putting a tiny incandescent bulb on the lamp prevents the
flashing. A lighted switch might leak the same kind of current.

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 by: Marilyn Manson - Sun, 1 May 2022 12:11 UTC

On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 10:12:02 PM UTC-4, Lenny Miller wrote:
> On 4/30/2022 7:59 PM, Marilyn Manson wrote:
> > On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 5:23:32 PM UTC-4, Lenny Miller wrote:
> >> I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
> >> switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
> >> before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
> >> by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?
> >
> > Do you have an illuminated light switch?
> >
> > Is this a new occurrence? When did it start? What changes were made?
> Yes. I do have an illuminated light switch. Not sure when it started. I
> just noticed it.

DAGS

There are lots of hits for flickering and flashing CFL's when illuminated switches
are used. It's a known issue.

Seems like ditching the CFL for an LED would be the easy solution. CFL's start out
ugly and get dim and yellowy over time anyway.

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 by: Dean Hoffman - Sun, 1 May 2022 13:48 UTC

On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 11:16:24 PM UTC-5, Bob F wrote:
> On 4/30/2022 2:23 PM, Lenny Miller wrote:
> > I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
> > switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
> > before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
> > by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?
> X10 light stitches do this because they pass a small current to see if a
> device is switched on manually, That small current is enough to flash
> CFL's. Putting a tiny incandescent bulb on the lamp prevents the
> flashing. A lighted switch might leak the same kind of current.

So, what if he installed some sort of surge or arc suppressor in the box
where the problem light is? The ones I remember would be small enough to
fit in the box.
<https://bullseyeindustrialsales.com/electrocube-rg2031-7-6-arc-suppressor-snubber-600vdc-1500o-01-mfd-1-2-watt-113304>

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On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:48:45 AM UTC-4, dean...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 11:16:24 PM UTC-5, Bob F wrote:
> > On 4/30/2022 2:23 PM, Lenny Miller wrote:
> > > I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
> > > switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
> > > before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
> > > by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?
> > X10 light stitches do this because they pass a small current to see if a
> > device is switched on manually, That small current is enough to flash
> > CFL's. Putting a tiny incandescent bulb on the lamp prevents the
> > flashing. A lighted switch might leak the same kind of current.
> So, what if he installed some sort of surge or arc suppressor in the box
> where the problem light is? The ones I remember would be small enough to
> fit in the box.
> <https://bullseyeindustrialsales.com/electrocube-rg2031-7-6-arc-suppressor-snubber-600vdc-1500o-01-mfd-1-2-watt-113304>

Why not just use another LED? I could have gone to store bought an LED and
installed it in half the time that this thread's been alive.

At a minimum I could have tested it with another LED from another fixture.

Bottom line question: Why is the OP using 3 LEDs and 1 CFL? (I've asked...let's
see if he answers)

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On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:48:45 AM UTC-4, dean...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 11:16:24 PM UTC-5, Bob F wrote:
> > On 4/30/2022 2:23 PM, Lenny Miller wrote:
> > > I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
> > > switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
> > > before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
> > > by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?
> > X10 light stitches do this because they pass a small current to see if a
> > device is switched on manually, That small current is enough to flash
> > CFL's. Putting a tiny incandescent bulb on the lamp prevents the
> > flashing. A lighted switch might leak the same kind of current.
> So, what if he installed some sort of surge or arc suppressor in the box
> where the problem light is? The ones I remember would be small enough to
> fit in the box.
> <https://bullseyeindustrialsales.com/electrocube-rg2031-7-6-arc-suppressor-snubber-600vdc-1500o-01-mfd-1-2-watt-113304>

It's not a surge problem, it's that an X10 switch or a lighted switch still pass
a very small current through the load when the switch is off. They have to
in order to power the light or the X10 circuits, without a neutral. Some low power
loads, that's enough to make it partially light up. But it's usually LEDs that are
the problem, not CFL, but I suppose it depends on the exact design of the power
supply. Since LEDs work for him, simple solution is to just use those, better
anyway. Could relocate the CFL if they want to.

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On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 8:11:12 AM UTC-4, Marilyn Manson wrote:

>
> Seems like ditching the CFL for an LED would be the easy solution. CFL's start out
> ugly and get dim and yellowy over time anyway.

Also it would be safer. CFLs have a vaccuum and the tube sprays glass if you drop it. LEDs have air (and they bounce a bit, I've cut one open to see and that wasn't easy. Tough plastic.)

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On 5/1/2022 1:44 PM, TimR wrote:
> On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 8:11:12 AM UTC-4, Marilyn Manson wrote:
>
>>
>> Seems like ditching the CFL for an LED would be the easy solution. CFL's start out
>> ugly and get dim and yellowy over time anyway.
>
> Also it would be safer. CFLs have a vaccuum and the tube sprays glass if you drop it. LEDs have air (and they bounce a bit, I've cut one open to see and that wasn't easy. Tough plastic.)

I'd be more concerned with the mercury than the glass.

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In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 30 Apr 2022 17:23:27 -0400, Lenny Miller
<lmiller@invalid.com> wrote:

>I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
>switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
>before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
>by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?

It's a distress call from the night-shift employees where the bulbs are
made.

I think 8 blinks means Send pizza.

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In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 02 May 2022 14:04:47 +0300, micky
<NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

>In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 30 Apr 2022 17:23:27 -0400, Lenny Miller
><lmiller@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>>I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
>>switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
>>before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
>>by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?
>
>It's a distress call from the night-shift employees where the bulbs are
>made.
>
>I think 8 blinks means Send pizza.

No, I googled it and it means "Bulb explosion imminent"!!!!! Be
careful.

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 by: Lenny Miller - Mon, 2 May 2022 11:19 UTC

On 5/1/2022 10:38 AM, Marilyn Manson wrote:
> On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:48:45 AM UTC-4, dean...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 11:16:24 PM UTC-5, Bob F wrote:
>>> On 4/30/2022 2:23 PM, Lenny Miller wrote:
>>>> I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
>>>> switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
>>>> before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
>>>> by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?
>>> X10 light stitches do this because they pass a small current to see if a
>>> device is switched on manually, That small current is enough to flash
>>> CFL's. Putting a tiny incandescent bulb on the lamp prevents the
>>> flashing. A lighted switch might leak the same kind of current.
>> So, what if he installed some sort of surge or arc suppressor in the box
>> where the problem light is? The ones I remember would be small enough to
>> fit in the box.
>> <https://bullseyeindustrialsales.com/electrocube-rg2031-7-6-arc-suppressor-snubber-600vdc-1500o-01-mfd-1-2-watt-113304>
>
> Why not just use another LED? I could have gone to store bought an LED and
> installed it in half the time that this thread's been alive.
>
> At a minimum I could have tested it with another LED from another fixture.
>
> Bottom line question: Why is the OP using 3 LEDs and 1 CFL? (I've asked...let's
> see if he answers)

CFL is the one that hasn't burnt out.

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On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 7:19:43 AM UTC-4, Lenny Miller wrote:
> On 5/1/2022 10:38 AM, Marilyn Manson wrote:
> > On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:48:45 AM UTC-4, dean...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 11:16:24 PM UTC-5, Bob F wrote:
> >>> On 4/30/2022 2:23 PM, Lenny Miller wrote:
> >>>> I have this curly 23 W light bulb in the kitchen. After I turn the
> >>>> switch off, this bulb blinks about every two seconds for eight times
> >>>> before going off while the other three bulbs, all LED, also controlled
> >>>> by the same switch, behave normally. Is this bulb haunted?
> >>> X10 light stitches do this because they pass a small current to see if a
> >>> device is switched on manually, That small current is enough to flash
> >>> CFL's. Putting a tiny incandescent bulb on the lamp prevents the
> >>> flashing. A lighted switch might leak the same kind of current.
> >> So, what if he installed some sort of surge or arc suppressor in the box
> >> where the problem light is? The ones I remember would be small enough to
> >> fit in the box.
> >> <https://bullseyeindustrialsales.com/electrocube-rg2031-7-6-arc-suppressor-snubber-600vdc-1500o-01-mfd-1-2-watt-113304>
> >
> > Why not just use another LED? I could have gone to store bought an LED and
> > installed it in half the time that this thread's been alive.
> >
> > At a minimum I could have tested it with another LED from another fixture.
> >
> > Bottom line question: Why is the OP using 3 LEDs and 1 CFL? (I've asked...let's
> > see if he answers)
> CFL is the one that hasn't burnt out.

And it may take a long, long time to do that. Often they just get dimmer and dimmer
and sometimes yellow. The dimmer and dimmer part often goes unnoticed as it's a
gradual thing and the user just gets used to it.

For the cost of an LED, you'll get even light from all bulbs and the flashing will stop.

Story time: My daughter recently bought a house. The basement was lit with 4 individual
pull chain fixtures, each containing a CFL. The CFL's were so dim and yellowy you could
barely see. We know they used the basement because the listing had pictures of a table
with a computer on it, an old easy chair, a rug etc. With the dark red floor and dim lights
it felt like a dudgeon. On move-in day we replaced the CFL's with 100W equivalent LED's.
What a difference $15 worth of bulbs can make.

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On 5/2/2022 9:32 AM, Marilyn Manson wrote:

> For the cost of an LED, you'll get even light from all bulbs and the flashing will stop.
>
> Story time: My daughter recently bought a house. The basement was lit with 4 individual
> pull chain fixtures, each containing a CFL. The CFL's were so dim and yellowy you could
> barely see. We know they used the basement because the listing had pictures of a table
> with a computer on it, an old easy chair, a rug etc. With the dark red floor and dim lights
> it felt like a dudgeon. On move-in day we replaced the CFL's with 100W equivalent LED's.
> What a difference $15 worth of bulbs can make.

In my last house, over time it was all LED. I've been in this house 3
1/2 years and it was built with all LED. I've never had to replace one.

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 by: Jim Joyce - Mon, 2 May 2022 15:39 UTC

On Mon, 2 May 2022 09:36:14 -0400, Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:

>On 5/2/2022 9:32 AM, Marilyn Manson wrote:
>
>> For the cost of an LED, you'll get even light from all bulbs and the flashing will stop.
>>
>> Story time: My daughter recently bought a house. The basement was lit with 4 individual
>> pull chain fixtures, each containing a CFL. The CFL's were so dim and yellowy you could
>> barely see. We know they used the basement because the listing had pictures of a table
>> with a computer on it, an old easy chair, a rug etc. With the dark red floor and dim lights
>> it felt like a dudgeon. On move-in day we replaced the CFL's with 100W equivalent LED's.
>> What a difference $15 worth of bulbs can make.
>
>In my last house, over time it was all LED. I've been in this house 3
>1/2 years and it was built with all LED. I've never had to replace one.

My house just turned 3 years old and was also built with all LED bulbs.
Many are flush mount and those are all still fine, although we don't
like the 2700K 'soft' color temp. Others are A19-style, and I've had to
replace about 6-8 of those. I took two apart and the failure was the
same in both - there's a small circuit board inside that does AC->DC
rectification and voltage reduction and there was a burned trace on that
board. After jumping it, the light works again, but by that time the
'globe' or whatever it's called has been removed, destroyed in the
process. None of the replaced bulbs have failed so far.

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On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 9:36:21 AM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 5/2/2022 9:32 AM, Marilyn Manson wrote:
>
> > For the cost of an LED, you'll get even light from all bulbs and the flashing will stop.
> >
> > Story time: My daughter recently bought a house. The basement was lit with 4 individual
> > pull chain fixtures, each containing a CFL. The CFL's were so dim and yellowy you could
> > barely see. We know they used the basement because the listing had pictures of a table
> > with a computer on it, an old easy chair, a rug etc. With the dark red floor and dim lights
> > it felt like a dudgeon. On move-in day we replaced the CFL's with 100W equivalent LED's.
> > What a difference $15 worth of bulbs can make.
> In my last house, over time it was all LED. I've been in this house 3
> 1/2 years and it was built with all LED. I've never had to replace one.

Since that first day "bulb swap" I've rewired the basement so that a single switch turns on
four 4' LED fixtures. No more walking from pull-chain to pull-chain. She also painted the
dirty, peeling, off-white walls white-white and the nasty dark red floor a light blue. Trimmed
out the windows, new curtains, etc.

The progression from dark and dingy to bright and cheery was interesting to watch. It went
from "I hate going down there" to her workout space and a place for her crafts projects. And
it all started with a few LED bulbs. ;-)

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Lighted switches do pass a small current through the light circuit. There is a filter capacitor in the CFL that charges up, and will fire the lamp when it reaches the CFL power supply start up voltage. There is not enough leakage current through the lighted switch to sustain the lamp, so it will just blink. Some times if you wait long enough it may blink again intermittently. This can happen with LED bulb power supplies too.

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On 5/2/22 08:32, Marilyn Manson wrote:

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> Story time: My daughter recently bought a house. The basement was lit with 4 individual
> pull chain fixtures, each containing a CFL. The CFL's were so dim and yellowy you could
> barely see. We know they used the basement because the listing had pictures of a table
> with a computer on it, an old easy chair, a rug etc. With the dark red floor and dim lights
> it felt like a dudgeon. On move-in day we replaced the CFL's with 100W equivalent LED's.
> What a difference $15 worth of bulbs can make.

That was what had happened to the CFLs in my back bathroom. They were
getting dim and yellowy. Replacing them gave much better and brighter light.

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On 5/2/22 08:36, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

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> In my last house, over time it was all LED.  I've been in this house 3
> 1/2 years and it was built with all LED.  I've never had to replace one.

I'm in the process of replacing them. Now its over 2/3 LED. That
includes the 48-inch tubes, and refrigerator/freezer/microwave.

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On 5/2/22 10:39, Jim Joyce wrote:

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> My house just turned 3 years old and was also built with all LED bulbs.
> Many are flush mount and those are all still fine, although we don't
> like the 2700K 'soft' color temp.

I really don't like that yellow "soft white" either. It was necessary
when we could only have incandescent (real white incandescent bulbs
exist, but are less efficient and don't last as long), but that is no
longer necessary. Also, real white looks brighter, since eyes are
adapted to sunlight.

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