Spending the week with the daughter & g.d. So dad, can you install a fluorescent light in the closet? Piece of cake.
Go to Lowes, buy a cheapie 4 ft 2 lamp fixture, get it installed in place of the dinky bulb. Flip the switch, one lamp comes on half way, one is dead. Take it apart, check the wiring … is ok. Put bulbs back in, same thing. Swap bulbs to other sockets, one still dead, one flickers dimly.
So what could be the problem?
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bad bulbs or the contacts on the bulbs are oxidized or have crud of some sort on them..
clean the contacts with steel wool, 3M scrubby or hyper fine sand paper..
when you install the bulbs spin them in their sockets fer a bit..
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same bulb dead?
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the socket contacts could be cruded up too...
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Same bulb dead. Cruddy sockets ona new fixture?
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yup...
cheap metal oxidizes or crud gets on them during the mfgr process making for an insulator...
if the tombstones are stablock style lightly and politely wiggle the wires in the the sockets.. you may have a poor contact..
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Not enough current getting to the gas, whether from bad contacts, weak starter, cheap ballast or whatever.but if you swap bulbs around to each others sockets and end for end, then it is the bulb
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Is there a ground on that outlet you are connecting to - and does it actually ground?
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What xxPaulCPxx said.
Fixture need to be grounded for the lamps to start properly.
Ozlander
Check for the proper voltage at the power connections (black and white wires) if it is the proper voltage then the light is the problem if that is the case return the light and get another one if you just bought it. lot of the cheapie lights use cheapie ballasts
Just incase make sure that you are using the proper bulbs for the light there are different types (T-8 thin, T-12 fat) this info should be with the instructions or printed on the ballast
Sounds like you have bad tubes; yes new ones can be bad. Bought a case of them a while back and 90% of them were defective. If you have a fixture that takes the same tubes try them in there and if they do the same thing its the tubes, if not its the light itself. Lots of luck.
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one day flor. shop light isn't working.i go get 2 new bulbs,one flickers,other nothing. so i decide it needs a ballast.back to store buy ballast,install.one light flickers,what the h... so i head back to store buy a whole new fixture,put it up ,put lights in ,one flickers. now i'm p.o.after 6 hours i find out that one of my new bulbs is bad,another new bulb and i'm done. oh how i like for those 10 min jobs to take all day. larry
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What Always said. I've replaced a crapload of bulbs and ballasts in the building I work at. With the old T-12 fixtures, both bulbs have to be good in order to work. Not so with the new T-8's we have, the bulbs are independent. I'm not a sparky, but I guess it's how the fixtures are wired. Hope someone chimes in with a knowledgeable answer.