I have an overhanging lamp that has 4 lightbulbs. When I turn on the light switch, one bulb burns out. 2 weeks later, I turned the switch on again, and the next bulb burned out. why are the bulbs keep burning out especially at 1 AM in the morning? and is this spookY?
2007-12-03 16:48:19 · 9 answers · asked by xo_girl88 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Call an electrician. There's nothing spiritual about it.
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2007-12-03 16:51:39 · answer #1 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You didnt say 'when' your bulbs are blowing...if it is happening right when you turn them on, I'd suspect a voltage surge. If they are blowing after getting hot, then it's either bad bulbs, or the wrong wattage of bulb in the lamp fixture, and they are getting too hot. If you don't already have a surge surpressor for your critical electrical equipment (computers, tvs, etc) get them. Theyre a lot cheaper than new units, hehe (and they will help protect your equipment in the event of a lightning strike) I know I used to buy a surge supressor for lamp fixtures too... it looked like the top of the old screw in fuses, and would drop into the lamp fixture. It did basically what surge supressors (as found behind computers) do these days, but I have no idea whether they are still available. Unfortunately, this is one of those problems that will get blamed on everything but faulty electrical connections, because it is so hard to catch 'in the act'. Good Luck
2016-04-07 07:14:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dimmer switches are not friendly. They drop the amount of voltage available to the bulb and this in turn causes the bulb to draw more current. Four bulbs in one fixture does the same.
If the switch is not the dimmer type there may be bad connections in wiring or dirty contacts.
Nothing spiritual at work here.
2007-12-03 16:59:13 · answer #3 · answered by sympleesymple 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would be willing to bet the other two will be next. The light bulbs all have the same average life. So if the have all burnt for approx. the same number of hours; how, could we not expect them all to burn out at the same time. Or your electrical wires are truly possessed by demons. It is your call. little laugh
2007-12-03 17:09:19 · answer #4 · answered by Desert Lotus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably bad wiring, a flaky fuse box, or something like that. If you don't want your lights to burn out though just buy some fluorescent bulbs. Those things last forever, and they save electricity.
2007-12-03 16:57:37 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Low ambient temperature startup negatively impacts service life of regular incandescent lamps
2007-12-03 16:53:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should buy compact fluorescent light bulbs.
I hear their good for the enviornment.
Maybe if you did that, Mother Nature wouldn't come down so hard on you.
(Boo!)
2007-12-03 16:55:26 · answer #7 · answered by Andre 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds to me like you may have a short somewhere in that lamp.
2007-12-03 16:56:32 · answer #8 · answered by Patrick P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your lamp needs to be re-wired.
2007-12-03 20:58:09 · answer #9 · answered by alaska girl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋