Hi,
I've just changed my bathroom light to an energy saver and found that my fan doesn't go off. With the old filament bulb it usually stayed on for about 5 mins before clicking off.
I'm guessing that this is to do with the the fact that filament bulbs allow current to pass through them when they are switched off, but energy savers don't. I thought a solution could be a resistor in parallel with the light so the switched live still has some current passing through it. Will this work? I'm not sure how the timer in the bathroom fan is set up. If it will work should the parallel resistor be roughly equal to the resistance of a filament bulb, or should it be high resistance so I don't mess up the voltage to the energy saver bulb?
Thanks a lot!
I've just changed my bathroom light to an energy saver and found that my fan doesn't go off. With the old filament bulb it usually stayed on for about 5 mins before clicking off.
I'm guessing that this is to do with the the fact that filament bulbs allow current to pass through them when they are switched off, but energy savers don't. I thought a solution could be a resistor in parallel with the light so the switched live still has some current passing through it. Will this work? I'm not sure how the timer in the bathroom fan is set up. If it will work should the parallel resistor be roughly equal to the resistance of a filament bulb, or should it be high resistance so I don't mess up the voltage to the energy saver bulb?
Thanks a lot!