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Found a weird fix for flickering LED dimmers in my 1920s house
I was dealing with flickering kitchen lights for six months after swapping to LEDs, tried every dimmer on the shelf with no luck. Finally read a post about adding a cheap resistor across the load wire, and it smoothed everything out instantly. Anyone else run into older wiring causing issues with modern dimmers?
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nguyen.angela4mo ago
lol that's such an old school trick. pretty sure the ghosts in my walls were flickering the lights just to mess with me before I tried it.
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phoenix5733mo ago
ghosts in my walls" lol that got me. I had a similar thing with my bathroom light flickering like crazy and my roommate kept saying it was haunted. Turned out the wire nut was just loose and I fixed it with some electrical tape. Still kinda wish it was a ghost though, would be way more interesting than bad wiring from the 70s.
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lily_torres313mo ago
Oh man, that's actually hilarious @nguyen.angela. My buddy Pete had the exact same thing happen in his old place - swore his lights had a mind of their own until an electrician buddy just popped a resistor in there and called it a day. He still jokes the ghost is just chilling with steady light now.
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