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Christmas conundrum
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Grandad99
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A light problem in every sense of the word.
I have put up the same 3 sets of garden LED christmas lights for the last few years. I plug a multi socket connector into a mechanical timer to turn them on and off and have never had a problem with this setup until this year.
All 3 switch on together but only one set switches off. Clearly both the timer and the lights are working - can anyone suggest a reason why only one set respond to the timer's shut down function.
I have put up the same 3 sets of garden LED christmas lights for the last few years. I plug a multi socket connector into a mechanical timer to turn them on and off and have never had a problem with this setup until this year.
All 3 switch on together but only one set switches off. Clearly both the timer and the lights are working - can anyone suggest a reason why only one set respond to the timer's shut down function.
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!00% happy with the basic wiring, have checked the individual plugs in the multi socket but as all 3 sets of light are working they must be OK.
The faulty shut down is the unknown bit0 -
Are you saying the 'faulty' set never switch off?
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Ok, it could be a wiring fault.Consider if the timer is a single pole switch I.e. designed to switch off the live wire feed but us actually switching the negative. Thus live is on all the time.Led power supply connected accross live and neutral....on off, switching.Led power supply connected erroneously live to Earth wire then switching off the neutral leaves power on to the lights ....on on, no switching.If so ( and anyway ) it ought to be checked by a competent person as it could be dangerous....and sounds like it is not connected via an earth leakage circuit breaker....2
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What fun! Do you have a multimeter for checking? Has anything at all changed since last year, when exactly this setup worked as expected?Grandad99 said:!00% happy with the basic wiring, have checked the individual plugs in the multi socket but as all 3 sets of light are working they must be OK.
The faulty shut down is the unknown bitNo reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?1 -
No to both questions0
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Do you have another multi socket extension you could try to test? Apologies if that's been done...Drinking Rum before 10am makes you
A PIRATE
Not an Alcoholic...!1 -
...if it was working last year......but not this......then something has to have changed 🤔2
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Agreed, the problem is what
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