Q: My home is about 20 years old. My problem is with the lights in the kitchen. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. When I turn on the switch, the light flickers or just partially lights. I ...

When your fluorescent light flickers or makes a loud and annoying hum, a degrading ballast could be the cause. Replacing a ballast is easier than you think, but ballasts can be expensive, so consider ...

Fluorescent lights are more efficient than incandescent ones, but also more complicated. As a result, simply replacing the bulb-actually a tube-when a fluorescent light develops problems will not ...

Actually two ballasts failed. These are from Advance Transformer Company and I really don’t think it is their fault. Heck it might be my fault since I see that there are different colored wires that ...

Q: As I was changing the fluorescent light tube in my ceiling fixture, I rotated the bulb to get it out and I heard a “snap” and saw things falling from the fixture. I cringed and waited for the pain.

Recently I found smoke pouring out of a compact fluorescent bulb (CFL) in a basement light. I turned off the light, removed the bulb and rushed it outside. An incandescent installed in the same socket ...

June 22, 2007 With over half a billion fluorescent light globes disposed of each year in the U.S. alone, there is no doubting the significance of a product that allows existing fluorescent fixtures to ...