There is a duplicate fixture over the stove that works just fine. I am next to positive that I installed the new flourescent tube correctly. The circuit breaker is fine. What in the world could go wrong with a light fixture like this? I understand how electronics break, but how does such a simple device stop working? Please give me some suggestions as to how to fix the light. Thank you very much for all of your help. I am very thankful to all those who help me out with answers.
Sincerely,
Ken M
2006-12-29 12:35:34 · 7 answers · asked by kmm4864990 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Ken,
Fluorescent fixtures have to have a ballast or a starter to excite the gases in the tube.If it is a small fixture it needs a starter.The starter is a small cylindrical shaped apparatus with 2 Lil ends on it.
You will need to locate it and turn it only about a 1/4 turn to get it out.If it is a ballast just take out old and go to hardware store and get one just like it and hook back like you took it out .Probably under the cover or in the end of the fixture.Not as simple as one would think.Good Luck.TURN POWER OFF before working on it.
2006-12-29 12:49:36 · answer #1 · answered by harleyman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The switch might be bad or its wiring might have come loose, or maybe even have a break in it; the ballast in the flourescent fixture might be bad; the internal wiring within the fixture might be bad. Rather improbable, but wiring to the fixture might be bad.
You need to systematically eliminate the possible causes to pinpoint your problem.
Your situation reminds me of when a very near lightening strike tripped 4 circuit breakers in my house. It even blew the fuse in the microwave (which I/we were lucky that it even had a fuse.). The microwave was plugged in but wasn't being used when all this happened. But by far the worst problem was finding out why a circuit breaker wouldn't reset for the wiring in a small 3/4 bath. (Some of the internal wiring behind a switch in the bathroom had a nick in it, apparently from carelessness when someone stripped it. That nick allowed the lightning strike to induce an arc to the grounded switch box, leaving a carbon track that kept shorting the circuit when I tried to reset the circuit breaker. The repair (once I finally found the problem) was just replacing a short piece -- less than 6inches -- of #12 wire WITHOUT any careless nick in it.
2006-12-29 13:05:17 · answer #2 · answered by answerING 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All fluorescent lights furnishings have ballasts; the ballast is mandatory to make certain that the lamps to artwork. The ballast is often hidden under some style of steel protecting plate in the fixture. be optimistic to disconnect the ability before investigating. And, this is often greater low fee (and in all possibility greater handy) to interchange an entire fixture extremely than changing a ballast. And, with the recent standards for T-8 tubes, this is getting difficult to locate a replace ballast for the older T-12 tubes. be optimistic to apply an analogous style of fluorescent tubes it extremely is imprinted on the ballast!
2016-10-06 04:43:41 · answer #3 · answered by matlock 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When in doubt, throw it out. A new small flourescent fixture is less than 20 bucks.
2006-12-29 12:58:45 · answer #4 · answered by bob j 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you will check the ballast, I am sure that you will find that it is gone bad. You can go to most any home building supply store and find a replacement. Should cost about 8-12 bucks.
2006-12-29 12:50:05 · answer #5 · answered by reklaw 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check the ballast and or clean the bulb-holder terminals.
Turn the power off first.
2006-12-29 12:44:56 · answer #6 · answered by .G. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If'n you bought it from Wal Mart odds are the balast was under rated Go get another unit
2006-12-29 13:03:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋