Lights flickering?
Question:My lights keep flickering & the battery back up for my computer clicks when the light flickers whats wrong w/ the electricity? Lights only flicker in living room & bathroom though.
Answers:
Lights flicker from a variety of reasons, most common is a heavy load which intermittently goes on and off. The surge current during startup, will momentarily lower the line voltage, which you see as a flicker and the light dims momentarily. The heavier the load, the lower the voltage goes. The rason why you only see this in some rooms is that these rooms have lights which dim at a higher voltage than the rest. There is nothing you can do about this if the source of the load causing the problem is not in your house. Where I live in the Pacific Northwest, we have a lot of rainy windy weather and tree limbs fall across power lines frequently, causing momentary shorts which cause the lights to flicker. If enough tree limbs fall across enough lines and stay across the line long enough, the short will cause a circuit breaker to open and then the lights go off for a while, sometimes for days...
I would suspect you have a lose wire somewhere inside a plugin or at the breaker box. Check all conections inside the boxes that are on that line and tighten them all up.
If it is flourecent lighting you might have a bad ballast have a electrician come out and take a look at it or there could be you have a bad circuit breaker
you are drawing too many amps on a circuit. do you notice this problem say when ac kicks on or anything? or you turn on some small inductive load? a fan or whatever?
doesnt really matter, you have too many appliances/loads plugged into the circuit.
whatever the case, YOU NEED TO GET THAT CHECKED OUT. could be a faulty breaker isnt opening. so have it looked at by e-!
HHHmmm-does the flickering coincide with an air conditioner coming on or other major appliance?or hairdryer?
If that's the case try plugging in the ac in another receptacle with the hope of that being on another circuit-I wouldn't use a real long extension cord though(various reasons)or better try to find another circuit for the PC-it should be a dedicated(only one receptacle)circuit anyway
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