I'm having a spot of bother with the bathroom lights.They've been a bit iffy since some electrician fucked them up years ago, but since the flattard stood there for two minutes switching them off and on again they've not turned on at all.
There's some kind of cross wired logic problem involving the extractor fan; instead of the light switch turning the fan on and waiting its given time to turn off after the light goes out, the fan just stays on and the light stays off.
Tomorrow I'll try to isolate them on the fusebox, switch them off for an hour and hope that whatever demented 555 timer is responsible resets itself. If that doesn't work, I guess it's time to open up the circuit and check for rust and obvious shorts. If that fails, I start cutting random wires until something happens.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 14 Aug 2023, 19:11,
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See here's your problem, it's not so much that the light doesn't come on, it's that if it's not coming on, then it's not actually a light, it's something else. I suspect it's a bulb.
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Mon 14 Aug 2023, 21:03,
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There's a fresh bulb installed so it isn't that.The extractor fan comes on. It's almost certainly a rusty 555, absolutely certainly a pre-existing short circuit in that area too.
Thinking about it, it might have always been an increasingly rusty 555. The flattard flicking the switch constantly might have saturated the IC somehow..? Like maybe the 555, if it even is one, has no means of discharging or is otherwise frozen/fried in a state of illogic.
I hope it's a 555/556 or something easy to replace. Worse case scenario it's a black blob. I hate black blobs.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 14 Aug 2023, 21:16,
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Then I guess it's the bulb like you said (
mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Mon 14 Aug 2023, 23:07,
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