LED bulbs are sometimes a problem

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September 27, 2025
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We have wall lights over the bed that have 'flickered' just about forever... forever being ever since local stores stopped selling replacement incandescent bulbs and forced the purchase of LED bulbs... so I did a search and found out that incandescent bulbs ARE still available... no more flickering lights!!!
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The reason the LED bulbs flickered was because the wall mount light fixtures do not have a simple on/off switch, they have dimmer switches... and LED bulbs do not work well with a dimmer switch
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In fact, I just had to replace an old/dead sensor light fixture on the outside of my garage, and the 2nd page in the install manual for the new fixture had BIG PRINT saying not to use the fixture, which has built in LED bulbs, with a dimmer switch
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https://www.amazon.com/Clear-Incandescent-Service-Medium-Lumens/dp/B07PNK9DQT

John T Smith

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1 - wife's grandson is a certified union electrician who supervised my work with all new wiring

2 - the inspector checked EVERYTHING very closely and approved my work

3 - the blender only tripped the GFI breaker when she 'pulsed' the on button, not when just running

4 - kitchen has 2 circuits and only 1 of them has a problem with the blender being pulsed

4a - so one GFI breaker is more sensitive than the other one... she doesn't use that circuit now

kglad

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maybe that blender is faulty

Chuck Uebele

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Yea, you definitely have to get dimmable LED lights. There are still issues with LEDs, but for the most part, they're okay. I had a ceiling fan in one room and also a microwave. Turn the microwave on, and the lights flicker. The microwave was drawing too much power to dropped the voltage down to where the LED lights flickered.

John T Smith

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When we remodeleded 10 years ago I was required to put a seperate line (circuit breaker) for the microwave, so no probglems with the kitchen lights

Chuck Uebele

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Mine was a table top microwave in a bedroom.

Actually, I had a little k-cup coffee maker, first, that made the lights flash.

daniellei4510

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Never had ones that flickered, but some generic ones I bought burned out very quickly, while incandescents I installed at the same time kept on shining. Mercury vapor lamps are another story. Worked in an office where there were nothing but, and editing under those things was a nightmare even when they weren't flickering. Which was usually every day, at least somewhere in the building.

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