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From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Flouro with a mind of its own!!
Message-ID: <1991Jan09.061151.5154@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 9 Jan 91 06:11:51 GMT
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rickj@syacus.acus.oz (Rick Jones) writes:
>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)?

These are _exactly_ he symptoms I saw when I had a fixture wired with the
switch on the neutral side of the mains.  It wouldn't do it all the time;
it seemed to depend on the weather.  Moved the switch to the hot lead and
things got normal.  It had been miswired for a couple of years with no
symptoms.

>Rick Jones                 (Software Engineer)

It's a hardware problem.

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Gordon S. Hlavenka            cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us
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