Light fixture flickering after Hurricane Dolly power outage
Hello everyone,
It’s good to be back after our “adventure” with Hurricane Dolly. We were directly in this storm’s path and had quite an interesting time of it. I have survived another more powerful hurricane but it’s never a piece of cake. Fortunately, we don’t appear to have lost any fish.
Anyway, on to aquarium-related stuff, we were without power for 51 hours. Now that it has been restored, I find that one of my Coralife Aqualights, a compact fluorescent fixture, will not come on. Instead, it will flicker a bit near the starter mechanism (not sure what it is called) and then nothing. I think it may have been in the ‘on’ position throughout the outage so that when the power did come on last night, maybe it got too much initial power? We had shut down all computers, air conditioning, the other tanks’ filters & lights before the power went out but this one was forgotten. Fortunately, the filter began working immediately after I plugged it back in. Can anyone advise as to whether I can hope to do a simple repair on this myself or if it is time to replace the fixture + tube? I appreciate all advice, this is a new problem for me.
Cheers, Beverly
Peace, please!
Category: UniQuaria
