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Worth1 · December 21, 2013

Will run on one lamp.

Its the little things in life that count.

Here is a true light story that happened to me.
I was an IBEW electrician about 8 years ago.
I was working to be a journeyman electrician and many of the guys thought I should already be one.
I was asked to help out a crew in Austin put in new light fixtures in the dinning hall of some high tech place on a Saturday.
Working hard to prove I was a good electrician I made sure I did my fare share of work.
We got ready to turn the power on.
None and I mean none of my florescent lights came on.

I was devastated I made sure I had wired everything right I just knew I had.
One of the foreman started checking out my wiring and found it all to be wired correctly.

It turned out that when we all picked a big box of fixtures I had picked a dud box.

10 fixtures all in one box was bad, my box.

We didn't buy them from Walmart or any other big box store, they came from an electrical supply house.

Worth

December 22, 2013

When two out of three low cost fixtures fail within one month after installation, I take it as a sign I should buy better fixtures. Right now I am running one good fixture and one cheapo. I suppose I am just wait for the last cheapo to fail. It will probably outlast me out of pure spite.

I don't care if it is Christmas lights or multi-tube fluorescent fixtures, I don't like it when the entire circuit is opened with the failure of one bulb. It can be tricky to figure out which bulb is bad. If more than one failed due to a power surge or something, you may as well pull all of the bulbs and replace all of them and then test the bulbs you removed to eliminate the bad bulbs.

Ted

December 21, 2013	#31
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Will run on one lamp. Its the little things in life that count. Here is a true light story that happened to me. I was an IBEW electrician about 8 years ago. I was working to be a journeyman electrician and many of the guys thought I should already be one. I was asked to help out a crew in Austin put in new light fixtures in the dinning hall of some high tech place on a Saturday. Working hard to prove I was a good electrician I made sure I did my fare share of work. We got ready to turn the power on. None and I mean none of my florescent lights came on. I was devastated I made sure I had wired everything right I just knew I had. One of the foreman started checking out my wiring and found it all to be wired correctly. It turned out that when we all picked a big box of fixtures I had picked a dud box. 10 fixtures all in one box was bad, my box. We didn't buy them from Walmart or any other big box store, they came from an electrical supply house. Worth

December 22, 2013	#32
tedln Guest Posts: n/a	When two out of three low cost fixtures fail within one month after installation, I take it as a sign I should buy better fixtures. Right now I am running one good fixture and one cheapo. I suppose I am just wait for the last cheapo to fail. It will probably outlast me out of pure spite. I don't care if it is Christmas lights or multi-tube fluorescent fixtures, I don't like it when the entire circuit is opened with the failure of one bulb. It can be tricky to figure out which bulb is bad. If more than one failed due to a power surge or something, you may as well pull all of the bulbs and replace all of them and then test the bulbs you removed to eliminate the bad bulbs. Ted