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From: rickj@syacus.acus.oz (Rick Jones)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Flouro with a mind of its own!!
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.060704.6882@syacus.acus.oz>
Date: 7 Jan 91 06:07:04 GMT
Distribution: sci.electronics
Organization: ACUS Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Sydney
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Hi,

Last week my wife called me into our son's room complaining that she
couldn't turn off his flourescent light.  After my initial reaction of
wondering just how many cylinders she was really firing on, I went and
investigated.

The light, even when turned off at the switch, continued to flicker to full
brightness and then die again, repeating this every twenty seconds or so.

I pulled the switch out and tested it.  All OK!  What causes this type of
aparent aberration?  Another side effect was that, if I touched the tube, I
received the same sort of response that you'd expect from a plasma display
tube, with the light radiating to my fingertips.

Can anyone shed any light on this (pardon the pun)?

Regards,

Rick.

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