Hi all. I'm new to the site. The name is Jerry and I live in Colorado Springs. I recently bought a home and will be doing lots of home improvements so I thought I should join a site like this for answers to my questions. So here is the first one...
BTW, This one is for my Dad as he hates the computer and has no one around him that he can ask. He lives in California. He is going to have his 70th birthday this coming weekend and will be having some folks over for it. The lighting on his patio (florescent) were not bright enough so he went down and bought two more 4 footers to add to the patio. He says he wired them in like he always does, and paid attention to the polarity and when he turns them on they come on then go out.
He then wired them up with a standard plug on the end to plug into an outlet just to be sure he wasn't overloading a circuit and the same thing happened.
Does anyone have any ideas of why this is happening? What he can do to correct this problem? He would really like to get the lights operating for his B-day.
Thanks for any reply's or ideas. I wish I live closer to him to come over and check things out but...
Jerry...
BTW, This one is for my Dad as he hates the computer and has no one around him that he can ask. He lives in California. He is going to have his 70th birthday this coming weekend and will be having some folks over for it. The lighting on his patio (florescent) were not bright enough so he went down and bought two more 4 footers to add to the patio. He says he wired them in like he always does, and paid attention to the polarity and when he turns them on they come on then go out.
He then wired them up with a standard plug on the end to plug into an outlet just to be sure he wasn't overloading a circuit and the same thing happened.
Does anyone have any ideas of why this is happening? What he can do to correct this problem? He would really like to get the lights operating for his B-day.
Thanks for any reply's or ideas. I wish I live closer to him to come over and check things out but...
Jerry...