RhinoCan
Newbie level 6
My mother has a problem with some of her fluorescent tubes in her basement. I was hoping I could get some advice here.
She has a variety of 48 inch fluorescent tubes in her basement to light the unfinished part of the basement, which is mostly used for laundry and storage. Some of these fluorescents regularly stop working. For instance, I found three different tubes that seemed dead when I was there the other day. In two of the cases, I got them working again by rotating them in the socket until they lit up. In the third case, it flickered a bit but wouldn't light up so I replaced that one and the new tube worked fine.
Can anyone suggest why the fluorescents are winking out and why rotating them in their sockets "fixes" the problem, at least for a while? Is the ballast resistor a factor in this problem? Do they need to be replaced periodically as a routine maintenance thing?
I really don't know much about fluorescent lights so I'm hoping someone here can educate me a bit or send me to a more appropriate forum since this seems a bit out of your normal subject matter.
She has a variety of 48 inch fluorescent tubes in her basement to light the unfinished part of the basement, which is mostly used for laundry and storage. Some of these fluorescents regularly stop working. For instance, I found three different tubes that seemed dead when I was there the other day. In two of the cases, I got them working again by rotating them in the socket until they lit up. In the third case, it flickered a bit but wouldn't light up so I replaced that one and the new tube worked fine.
Can anyone suggest why the fluorescents are winking out and why rotating them in their sockets "fixes" the problem, at least for a while? Is the ballast resistor a factor in this problem? Do they need to be replaced periodically as a routine maintenance thing?
I really don't know much about fluorescent lights so I'm hoping someone here can educate me a bit or send me to a more appropriate forum since this seems a bit out of your normal subject matter.