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Hi all,
I know this is a commonish problem but Googling gives me lots of different advice - I tried the thing I saw most often and it didn't work, so I'm asking.
This is a two-way switched light on the stairs.
Long story short I swapped every bulb for LEDs when I moved in but this one flashed/blinked when off, so I left the filament until it burnt out.
I then discovered that if I removed the smoke alarm - which is a few feet across the cieling and presumably spurred off this light - it stopped flashing.
On Googled advice I got a potted suppressor module with a 0.1uf cap and 120ohm resistor and put it across the lamp in the cieling rose, but that made zero difference.
I've just metered the connections in the cieling rose with the switches off (in both off positions) and am seeing 240v at all times.
Also - if it helps at all - with both up- and downstairs lighting circuits off at the fuse box I still read ~2.6v across this fixture, unplugging the smoke alarm drops that to ~2v.
Any thoughts? Or am I going to have to rewire the smoke alarm to come off a different circuit?
I know this is a commonish problem but Googling gives me lots of different advice - I tried the thing I saw most often and it didn't work, so I'm asking.
This is a two-way switched light on the stairs.
Long story short I swapped every bulb for LEDs when I moved in but this one flashed/blinked when off, so I left the filament until it burnt out.
I then discovered that if I removed the smoke alarm - which is a few feet across the cieling and presumably spurred off this light - it stopped flashing.
On Googled advice I got a potted suppressor module with a 0.1uf cap and 120ohm resistor and put it across the lamp in the cieling rose, but that made zero difference.
I've just metered the connections in the cieling rose with the switches off (in both off positions) and am seeing 240v at all times.
Also - if it helps at all - with both up- and downstairs lighting circuits off at the fuse box I still read ~2.6v across this fixture, unplugging the smoke alarm drops that to ~2v.
Any thoughts? Or am I going to have to rewire the smoke alarm to come off a different circuit?