The mystery continues
For quite a while I have had a problem with the outside security light.
It’s one of those LED gizmos that detects motion and switches on [but only in the dark of course]. It then waits long enough to presumably scare the shit out of a would-be burglar before switching itself off. Well, that’s the theory.
It worked perfectly for years but then it started acting up. It would come on when it detected motion but wouldn’t switch off again. However it would switch off presumably when dawn broke.
Then it decided not to bother switching off at all, so for a couple of years it has been shining permanently.
Then it developed a new trick. It started flashing at a rate of two or three flashes a second. Fucking weird. And to add to the mystery it started switching itself off during the day.
I looked up the possible cause and my screen filled up with people saying that flashing is caused by dimmer switches. That made perfect sense. I tried messing around and sure enough if the garden light was flashing and I switched on the dimmer switch, immediately the garden light shone steadily. It even switched off after a while as it was supposed to. Switch off the kitchen lights, and the flashing starts again. Though sometimes it was the other way around and the flashing would only happen when the dimmers were on.
So last Tuesday all my recessed ceiling lights were replaced with LED bulbs, and the dimmer switches just became ordinary switches. I am delighted with them. They are much brighter and opening the fridge door no longer lights the kitchen up because it used to knock the dimmer knob which no longer exists. I’m also told it will cut down on my leccy bill and the new setup is less of a fire hazard. All good reasons to change over.
But the garden light only flashes now.
Does it miss my dimmer switches? Was there a budding romance there that I inadvertently cut off in its prime? Is the garden light frantically searching for its lost companions?
I switched it off altogether.
Now Penny refuses to go out in the dark.
Bugger!