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Is it bad that it takes my light an entire second to actually turn off from when I click the switch (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Any electrical knowers out there

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[–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago* (11 children)

Yeah screw in, it might be LED. But I'm not entirely sure. But switching the bulb for another bulb didn't make it turn off quicker.

Edit: Although the bulb started flickering on the other lamp, so I think it 's a bad bulb + something else. Gonna have to go get a new bulb tomorrow.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    So the bulb turns off immediately in another lamp? Maybe the switch on your lamp doesn't open fully when you turn it off.

    I remembered something else: If you have a switch that cuts neutral instead of the live wire or both wires, LEDs can continue to faintly glow because of induced current. So I guess try reversing the plug on your lamp (if you can, I know in many countries the plugs are not reversible), but idk maybe that's not it.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I dont know what it means to reverse a plug blob-no-thoughts

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Flip it so the prongs go in the opposite hole, like the thing you can't do with usb plugs.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    That didn't do anything

    blob-no-thoughts

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yeah was a weird idea anyway. Btw, this switch on the lamp: Is it like a real physical switch that flips or slides, or is it like a touch sensor or a little button like on a cell phone?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Hey man now I know what reversing a plug means. It's a physical switch that flips and goes click.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Ok, if you unplug then lamp, does the light go out immediately?

    If it does, but it doesn't when you hit the switch, the switch is broken and arguably unsafe.

    It it doesn't, it's the bulb that's causing the delay.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    If a new bulb doesn't fix the problem then the switch on the lamp is bad and lamp needs to be replaced. It probably has a standard E26 socket which means house voltage at the socket and the electronics are inside the bulb. I'm not sure what the lamp standard is but sometimes there is a switching circuit which provides a lower voltage to the user knob/switch for safety and uses that to control the house voltage to the bulb socket so there could be circuit board and componants at the switch going bad. Installing a new bulb will tell you where the problem is.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If it isnt dangerous id rather keep the lamp. I can handle a 1 second delay on switching off and the lamp has sentimental value

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    If the bulb fix doesn't work and you want to take it apart and show me a pic of the switch I can probably tell you if it can be repaired or replaced with a new switch. I get the sentimental value thing I got my mom's tiffany pole lamp and if it went bad I would repair it.

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