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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: Fun With Matches on May 22, 2017, 05:53:20 AM
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OK, I used a bit of an OTT title because well, I felt like it.
My problem is I've just bought an LED bulb, screwed it into a lamp, and when I switch the lamp on it emits a high pitched noise.
What is the problem with it? Are all LED bulbs like that? Can anyone think of a reason why that particular bulb would emit a noise?
It's actually slightly unusual to use an Edison bulb, rather than a Bayonet, so there aren't any Edison bulbs around the house. I'll have to go out and get another one. But which do I avoid that would make a high pitched sound?
Thanks.
And BTW, I think Bayonets are fiddly and annoying.
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Should not make that noise. Other bulbs that save energy do emit a high pitched buzz, but not LED's. Got some LED bulbs here. Hated the other saving bulbs, was glad LED became more affordable.
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Did you screw it into a bajonet fitting? In that case what you hear will probably be because of a bad contact of bulb and power.
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Did you screw it into a bajonet fitting? In that case what you hear will probably be because of a bad contact of bulb and power.
:laugh: I wouldn't do that! It is a screw fitting. I was just making that point because there were no other Edison bulbs in the house to test it on that particular lamp.
I tried screwing it in tighter. Still a noise. The incandescent bulbs don't do that.
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There's something wrong with the LED.
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My kitchen flourescent light fixture also emits high freq noise, though it flickers as well, so I never use it. So annoying!
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There's something wrong with the LED.
Likely.
Kid can complain about the sound bats make. She never had a problem with an LED bulb.
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There's something wrong with the LED.
Likely.
Kid can complain about the sound bats make. She never had a problem with an LED bulb.
Or, it's a cheap LED with huge tolerances during manufacturing.
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It was £7. :(
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I'm gonna return it.
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I've bought cheaper silent ones.
Good that you wil return it.
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You should sue.
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OK, I used a bit of an OTT title because well, I felt like it.
My problem is I've just bought an LED bulb, screwed it into a lamp, and when I switch the lamp on it emits a high pitched noise.
What is the problem with it? Are all LED bulbs like that? Can anyone think of a reason why that particular bulb would emit a noise?
It's actually slightly unusual to use an Edison bulb, rather than a Bayonet, so there aren't any Edison bulbs around the house. I'll have to go out and get another one. But which do I avoid that would make a high pitched sound?
Thanks.
And BTW, I think Bayonets are fiddly and annoying.
You can make LED bulbs make a noise on dimmer switches or in variable output lamps by turning power down. If the lamp has a varable brightness control then you need a specialist LED bulb.
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OK, I used a bit of an OTT title because well, I felt like it.
My problem is I've just bought an LED bulb, screwed it into a lamp, and when I switch the lamp on it emits a high pitched noise.
What is the problem with it? Are all LED bulbs like that? Can anyone think of a reason why that particular bulb would emit a noise?
It's actually slightly unusual to use an Edison bulb, rather than a Bayonet, so there aren't any Edison bulbs around the house. I'll have to go out and get another one. But which do I avoid that would make a high pitched sound?
Thanks.
And BTW, I think Bayonets are fiddly and annoying.
You can make LED bulbs make a noise on dimmer switches or in variable output lamps by turning power down. If the lamp has a varable brightness control then you need a specialist LED bulb.
I thought of this too. However, it is not a dimmable lamp, just an on/off switch. Thanks. :)
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You should sue.
I think this is what I should do.
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You should sue.
I think this is what I should do.
Be sure you get a tough lawyer! :MLA:
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You should sue.
I think this is what I should do.
Be sure you get a tough lawyer! :MLA:
:laugh:
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Most of my indoor bulbs are now LED type. None of them make noise.
My biggest bitch is that they do not last for one hundred thousand hours, as advertised.
:tard:
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I've never heard of it with LED lights. But agreed on those energy-saver things, those are fucking heinous great steaming heaps of disembodied bog's dollocks. and give out a visually/sensorially vile emission spectrum, I hate the energy savers worse than fluorescent tubes or even the ultra-bright white glare of mercury vapor or xenon lamps.
Do others find it somehow kind of sickly and nauseating for some reason? I know I do. Its repulsive and makes my brain queasy and green around the gills after too long being around enough of the damnable things. LEDs aren't, somehow, so nasty. Even bright white ones, like the ones used in high intensity LED flashlights don't have that gutwrenching, subtle but downright unpleasant effect to them for me. What about the rest of you? figure it might well be a standard-issue aspie/autie pet hate. Personally I use incandescent bulbs wherever possible, and my room has a dimmer switch on it that can take the output down really low to a dim glow. But its definitely not just in the intensity of the light output where the nastiness lies for whatever reason. There is something about the kind of light it puts out that is just somehow unwholesome.
The best bulbs IMO, personally, though are high-pressure sodium vapor lamps, I'd like one of those for my room. Unfortunately, the buggerin' well council round here has taken to removing HPS lamps from street and replacing them with panels bearing dirty great bright white batteries of fluorescent white-like LEDs. They really take a huge sloppy wet stinking shite all over the enjoyability of a night-time walk. The sodium lamps are much nicer to be around, and seem to be quite the opposite, I quite like the light they give out.
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I have had a couple that made that same high pitched noise fluorescent bulbs make but it was very faint. I have also had ones that developed a flicker. Odd thing is they were the expensive ones I got a few years ago and I have not had those issues with the dollar store ones which at times you can get in a three pack for just a buck. One problem I have had with all of them though is RF interference mostly on AM but also on FM with some of them.