[UniQuaria] Light fixture flickering after Hurricane Dolly power outage
beverly pardue wrote: > > 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! >
Switches are usually an easy fix. Can you see the switch when you turn the fixture over? I am not familiar with this kind of fixture. My brother repairs all my flourescents for me. I used to be able to buy conversion kits to changeover an incandescent to a flourescent too, but I haven’t seen one in years. Nadine
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