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Message Subject Lights in home won’t turn off....anyone else?
Poster Handle stillhere
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Okay electricity 101... A switch opens a circuit... If your switch doesn't turn the light off you have a bad switch. No amount of "electricity in the air" will cause a light to stay on when the switch is moved to the off position. Electrons need a path for current to flow if the path is interrupted by opening a switch current flow stops. Check your light switch to see if it shows signs of arcing. Do be careful electricity is deadly if you don't know what you're doing.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79376355


Thanks, but so many switches all at once...does not make sense, two of the ceiling lights have two switches, none of them will shut the lights off. Could the power outage have caused this? It did not happen on that day.

The ceiling light in the dining room has been doing this on and off for a few days, the kitchen one once before, the back hall just this evening.
 Quoting: stillhere


Hey Opie,
Two questions do you live in a manufactured home?
If so a lot of those switches are made by Hubble manufacture and they are cheap and start to go at the same time. Could be stuck on. Do they go off if you fiddle with the switch?

Other question is check to see if the three lights in question are on the same circuit breaker.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72795234


House is almost 100 years old, knob and tube electric.

No amount on flipping on and off gets them to stay off.

We have original to house old screw in fuses, none are hot, I believe all are on a different circuit. All other lights are fine.
 
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