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    Lighting fault (flickering lights )

    Did a lighting job a few days ago in a sports hall , changing out dimmable surface mounted light to 600x600 LED panels . There was a bit of rewireing to allow for standard switching as the old setup was a mains feed round the lights and a 2 core belden from a refractive switch . Seemed to all...
  2. H

    Lights Flickering when turning on at different switch

    Hi, wondering if anyone could help me. The main light in my kitchen works off two different switches, one on either end of the room. One of the switches is a 3 gang switch which also connect to some spotlights and outside lights. When turning on and off at one switch it is fine, but then if you...
  3. K

    LED Downlights in Summerhouse flickering

    So, I had a summerhouse outbuilding (brick) built 4 years ago. Electrician installed LED downlights in the building. there are 2 rooms in there. Everything was fine until 2 years ago when a really cold spell of weather caused the lights in one of the rooms to not turn on. The other room they...
  4. M

    Light switch replacement (lights flickering)

    Hi, Friend asked me to check out their light switch cause the kitchen lights were flickering and the faceplate was getting hot. They sent the photos below to show what it looked like, obvious issue is the common looking fried, which I put down to a loose connection, hence the flickering...
  5. Mark Wright

    LED flickering in cold staffroom

    Most of the replaced halogen lights are flickering something terrible until the room warms up? Never heard of this. Any ideas? O and there GU5.3s
  6. B

    Flickering LED lights

    Hello all- I hope this is the right place to ask this question. A few weeks ago the LED lights in the kitchen started flickering intermittently, mostly when first turned on in the morning. I changed the light switches in case of dimmer compatibility problem but flickering continued and also...
  7. Z

    Sporadic light flickering

    I am not an electrician but am looking for some advice as to how to fix my sporadic light flickering problem that has come and gone for the year and a half I have lived in my house I have LED lights throughout the house that generally provided steady lighting, but a few times a day they will...
  8. T

    Flickering LED Spots Why?

    I have purchased spotlights as below, but they are flickering when I dimmed them down to around 15-20%. We have installed 8 x ALUSSO LED Recessed Ceiling Lights, 7W 580LM LED Downlights Dimmable, 30MM Ultra Slim Round Black Spotlights https://amzn.eu/d/6MQuB9Z We are using this dimmer which...
  9. Boogedy Bob

    Unusual Flickering lights

    Hello, I added a 240v insta hot water heater at the kitchen sink. When the water heater is in use the lights in the adjacent dining room flicker when the heater goes off. There is nothing common with either circuits. The dining room lighting and the heater are separate individual home runs and...
  10. D

    Lights flickering on one circuit

    Hi everyone. I live in an older home that still has a few circuits with aluminum wiring. One of these is a lights-only circuit that contains 6 switches. All connections appear to be fine. Proper connectors and antioxidant were used for joining aluminum wires and pig-tailing copper to some of the...
  11. T

    Flickering power to half the house

    Hello everyone! I'll start by saying an electrician is going to be called on this one, but I'm so curious as to what might be going on I just wanted to pick some brains. About 6 months ago, we started getting a little flicker in the all the lights in the house. Nothing big, and didn't think much...
    • TheBigRagu
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    • flickering house intermittent power power to
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    • Forum: DIY Electrical Advice
  12. W

    Power supply issues - flickering / electrical noise etc

    Hi Looking for some advice please. Keep having issues with flickering lights, some devices such as dehumidifier "stuttering" because power supply appears to be poor. All the internal wiring in my property has been checked in the past and any issues fixed e.g. new RCD consumer unit, earth...
  13. B

    Flickering LED lights

    Sure this has been answered before, can’t find a specific answer though. My house was rewired in 2021 and as part of the rewire I had LED lights put in every room, so 70-80 in total. Now about 12 months after the rewire one of the lights in one room (4 LEDs in the room, not on a dimmer) comes on...
    • Baz1974
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    • flickering led led lights lights
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  14. I

    Flickering LED room lights in a new house my son is having built.

    My son is having a new house built. The electrical wiring is almost complete but a problem has been detected. Some of the rooms LED lights flicker when lights in other rooms on other circuits are switched on or off. His electrician has not been able to find the problem. Some lights are on...
  15. S

    Need advice removing flickering from AC LED spotlight, if it only has one sine wave available.

    Good afternoon! I've recently wired a lighting system, where one light switch (a motion sensor) turns on two lights, but another motion sensor switch turns on just one. Here is my wiring schematic: (In the schematic, the transformer connects to a 12V LED and the spotlight runs on 230V mains.)...
    • Startn
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    • advice available flickering led lighting removing spotlight switches
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: DIY Electrical Advice
  16. R

    Flickering lights on separate circuits

    Evening All, Strange one so after a bit of advice. Got called to a customer this evening who had their boiler repaired after the circuit board got fried supposedly after a power cut when the supply was restored. They were told they needed a switch fused spur fitted as there was no way of...
  17. T

    Random downlight flickering

    Hi Ive never seen this issue in 35years in the trade and wondered if anybody has any idears. The property is a new build and the installation fitted by myself. We have 26 Aurora cx7 downlights on 3 seperate circuits and controlled by various switching configurations. All dimmer switches are...
  18. A

    LED lights flickering and going out

    Hi all, just joined the forum, have a weird problem, wondering if I could get some ideas. We built our house about 6 years ago. The downstairs was professionally wired, I wired the upstairs, when I finished that part of the house. All our ceiling lights are LED's. A while back, one of the...
    • AaronW
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    • flickering going led led lights lights out
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: DIY Electrical Advice
  19. B

    Quoizel exterior lights won't stay on, intermittent failures and flickering throughout circuit

    Hello and thank you in advance for your time in helping me troubleshoot my lights. I've added a video to show what my lights are doing. I have 4 Quoizel WVR8406EK lights on the front of my house and 2 in the back. They will intermittently go out. However I can unscrew the bulb and screw...
    • b_lloyd83
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    • circuit exterior flickering intermittent lights won't
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Lighting Forum
  20. M

    Flickering Lights Issue

    Hi Guys Looking to see if anyone has had the same issues. I went to a tennanted property last year where the house lights were flickering and all circuits were playing up and tripping the Board protected by 1 very old RCD which was the cause of the issue. I changed the Board to a new RCBO...

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