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Me plugging my monitor into my mobo instead of my graphics card for three years. I thought I had just gotten reeeeally unlucky in the silicon lottery.
Or getting a high refresh rate monitor and not changing the refresh rate in your os.
Last time I did that I just didn't get any output to the monitor, isn't that how it's supposed to work?
If your cpu doesn't have integrated graphics yeah.
Hmmm, maybe that's what happened, but I'm pretty sure I was getting output without the GPU plugged in, but that was a long time ago
In my computer once I installed my graphics card the integrated gpu was disabled, but there was a BIOS setting to keep both enabled
Massively depends on the system.
if you get a F series CPU with no igpu then you will likely get no output.
I'm pretty sure the fan was not the only thing set to "dim".
I was gonna say “CFLs just plug into a normal socket, those don’t generally just ‘go bad’”
The text is about a halogen bulb, though, not a CFL. Those generally use flanged prongs.
It still wouldn't be dim, it would either work or not. If it's dim, it's either a bad bulb or a setting on the light housing causing less voltage (I think?) to make it to the bulb.
or a setting on the light housing causing less voltage (I think?) to make it to the bulb
Aren't you just describing dimmers, the topic of the post?
Exactly!
I'm saying the likelihood of the socket/housing causing a dim light is vanishingly small, so OP should have caught this 6 years ago if they had even a passing understanding of how lights work.
My immediate asumption without looking it up was either it's not getting the right voltage or enough amperage since electricity is generally passed through to lights, so it would either work or not. So, either the bulb is bad (old lights get dim) or there's a setting somewhere on the fan or switch messing with the voltage or current. My first guess is the bulb, and if two fail, I'd check the fan.
After a quick search, apparently dimmers are fancier than that, and they actually modify the signal instead of adjusting voltage or amperage. But my initial intuition wasn't far off. The power is indeed on or off, and something else was interfering (the dimmer). If the fan didn't have the capability to adjust brightness, there would be no reason to interfere with the signal.
Simple logical deduction based on a passing understanding of electricity and lights would've led to the problem.
Okay, I'm sorry, but this is totally true and heterosexual. I have seen two people do this in real life.
this is a vegan greentext no animals were harmed in the creation
Anon has never heard of lamps, either.
My grandmother gifted me their old TV back in the 2000s because it was only showing black and white.
They had a mechanic look at it who said it was broken
Their was a button to change the saturation to get the TV back to show colours
I know someone who bought a new laptop and complained that the display broke after only a couple weeks
It only showed a super dim display and the viewing angle sucked
I pressed the fancy new "privacy screen" button and it "worked flawlessly" again
Ha. I had a coworker gift me a high end amp because the volume was all crackly. Opened it up sprayed electronic cleaner on the volume rheostat thingy and gave it a few back and forth turns. Perfect sound. I offered it back but he'd already purchased a new one. :/
Once you get used to proper bias lighting, suddenly overhead lamps become insufferable. I don't know how people do it.
His life was set to ‚dim’ for six years
Cause in the dark no one could see his tears
This feels...wrong.
Pro tip: Modern American fans are required to have a voltage limiter chip to dial down the lights. They fail. Lots. If your fan lights don't work, buzz, hum, whatever, take it down and cut the little fucker out, wire back together with wire nuts.
I've replaced two crappy fans with really nice units I found in the trash. 100 how-to's on YT.
Human Moment™. One of my former professors in Uni, the one I respected the most because she was one of the wisest and most perceptive people I'd met at that point, confided in us that it took her however many years since their introduction to realise that the small light on some wall-mounted light switches was meant as a guidance light if it's pitch black.
I always thought those were just there to incentivize turning it off at the breaker /s
idk if this is gay or fake, but it's funny as shit
You know, you only need to be around 5% smarter than the tool you are using to be successful with it. Humanity is right fuckered isn't it?
anon gets owned by a fan
When you don't read the "friendly" manual.
I have one of those fans. It only has a remote, no pull chains. I fucking hate that thing as much as I have ever hated anything in my life. It's so shitty. You would think having buttons would make it easier to use than a pull chain but they somehow made it even worse. Both the light and fan use the same Up and Down arrows to change the setting but there's a delay of a second or two between hitting the button and the fan actually changing (if it changes at all). There's also no indicator of which setting you're on currently (which is the only annoying part about pull chains). Also couldn't get it to switch directions for winter even after spending probably an hour on their site and Youtube looking at documentation and trying shit.
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