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Originally Posted by clkeiper
Worth, I was at a trade show this week and I asked and AEP rep which LED lights were better than others as I just put a brand new one in the bathroom only to have it blink on and off all. the. time. drives me crazy. the LEDs do not last, but the comment was made maybe the ballasts aren't compatible. So, just what does that mean? I need to switch out all the old light fixtures in our house or just go back to finding all incandescent and forget about the "savings" on out electric? we built the house in 1992... it is 25 years old... all of our fixtures are out of date? man. if mine are who's aren't? does the same explanation go with the poor life span of CFL's, too? they don't last for any length of time either.
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Carolyn something is rotten in Denmark with your house and electrical.
I remember you talking about this some time ago with lights not lasting long.
LED lights and CFL lights have electronics way beyond the common incandescent light.
An incandescent is just a glowing resistor more or less.
Is your house the only one running off the transformer on the pole.
If not do other people have the same problem off of it.
If so I would start looking at the voltage coming from it.
Is the voltage fluctuating low or high?
My guess it may be too high.
This may also be the reason for the fire from your charger in the work shop.
I have had the LED lights and CFL Lights in my house for years with no problems.
You can also check both sides of the phase coming in to see if they are the same.
The ballast?
If you have an incandescent running there should be no ballast.
If you are running dimmers that is your problem right there.
These CFL and LED lights dont take kindly to dimmers from what I have read.
I'm telling you now something is wrong somewhere and it isn't the lights.
Worth