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csziggy

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17. Do you have any CFLs?

Reply to HipChick (Reply #16)

Sun Mar 24, 2013, 09:56 PM

Mar 2013

One source I read said that CFLs when they burn out can fry a fixture. It happened to a little lamp we own - when the CFL in it went out, it shorted the contacts in the socket. It didn't trip the circuit, but it did fry two replacement bulbs before we figured out that the socket was the problem. I still need to rewire that lamp...

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HipChick - did you get your electrical problem fixed? [View all] csziggy Mar 2013 OP

Maybe she went to Lowes. In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #1

Didn't her last post say she'd just gotten back with the new breaker? Callmecrazy Mar 2013 #2

Hi Callmecrazy. I missed that post. hmm. In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #3

....I went outside exploring for main switches HipChick Mar 2013 #4

Make sure he checks your shorts! Callmecrazy Mar 2013 #5

good point In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #6

Call Me Crazy.. HipChick Mar 2013 #7

re: your shorts Hula Popper Mar 2013 #12

Interesting..didn't know that about the power company HipChick Mar 2013 #13

NOTHING helpless there, Chick! elleng Mar 2013 #8

It doesn't have to do with being female. I know no man who would fool Honeycombe8 Mar 2013 #9

Glad you're OK - sorry the problem isn't fixed csziggy Mar 2013 #10

My neighors offered his 2 cents.. HipChick Mar 2013 #14

Most of our electrical problems are frong or lizards csziggy Mar 2013 #15

LOL! Well..I have an open short somewhere...tomorrow I might take a quick look at the sockets HipChick Mar 2013 #16

Do you have any CFLs? csziggy Mar 2013 #17

I don't think I have anything with a reset button HipChick Mar 2013 #18

CFL = compact fluorescent lamp csziggy Mar 2013 #19

Actually I do in one fixture...thanks I will check that out too HipChick Mar 2013 #20

if we could just have digital electricity olddots Mar 2013 #11