A couple of months ago I changed all of our downstairs light fittings and all seemed absolutely fine - no problems in that time and all work as expected etc.
Yesterday I was experimenting with some lightbulbs with varying brightness and oddly when screwing in a dim 1w bulb, it still gave off a slight glow even when the light wasn't actually turned on. Not fully on (when a 1w bulb is obviously quite dim anyway), but almost the kind of level you'd get from an emergency light. I tried this with all four light fittings just to check and strangely two of them did this while the other two didn't (bulb was fully off if the switch at the wall was).
I've wired all of the light fittings up the same so I can't work out why this would be the case in some but not others. In three of the fittings there are multiple of each wire, meaning I had to identify the correct switch live etc and connect two of the live wires to a wago connector block, so I wondered if I might've done something slightly wrong there, but then the bathroom light is one where this issue happens, however that light is on its own individual circuit (with its own individual fuse switch etc) and for that there literally is just a single of each live, neutral and earth wire, so I can't figure out how that could possibly have been wired incorrectly!
Of course had I never experimented with this very low wattage bulb I'd have never even known this to be an issue - with literally any other bulb this doesn't happen at all, even with as low as a 3w energy saving bulb.
Have I likely wired up something slightly wrong in a couple of them? Or is it possible that those 1w bulbs just require such little power that simply being screwed in to a socket that's connected to the mains (albeit switched off) is still enough power to make them glow faintly.
Yesterday I was experimenting with some lightbulbs with varying brightness and oddly when screwing in a dim 1w bulb, it still gave off a slight glow even when the light wasn't actually turned on. Not fully on (when a 1w bulb is obviously quite dim anyway), but almost the kind of level you'd get from an emergency light. I tried this with all four light fittings just to check and strangely two of them did this while the other two didn't (bulb was fully off if the switch at the wall was).
I've wired all of the light fittings up the same so I can't work out why this would be the case in some but not others. In three of the fittings there are multiple of each wire, meaning I had to identify the correct switch live etc and connect two of the live wires to a wago connector block, so I wondered if I might've done something slightly wrong there, but then the bathroom light is one where this issue happens, however that light is on its own individual circuit (with its own individual fuse switch etc) and for that there literally is just a single of each live, neutral and earth wire, so I can't figure out how that could possibly have been wired incorrectly!
Of course had I never experimented with this very low wattage bulb I'd have never even known this to be an issue - with literally any other bulb this doesn't happen at all, even with as low as a 3w energy saving bulb.
Have I likely wired up something slightly wrong in a couple of them? Or is it possible that those 1w bulbs just require such little power that simply being screwed in to a socket that's connected to the mains (albeit switched off) is still enough power to make them glow faintly.
