Monday, January 2, 2012

My dimmer switch is buzzing...dangerous?

We have a dinner knob switch (which you turn or push) for our family room, which is on its own circuit...not sharing one and nothing's changed except the type of bulbs used. My husband changed the last remaining incandescent bulb (which the switch says it's an incandescent...but no matter what, the bulbs burn out within a couple months...I know this is because the dimmer operates the bulbs by turning them off about 120 times per second). So now all the bulbs are fluorescent...I'm uming the problem is because the fluorescents operate diffrently. But that's not my question. Is it dangerous?? We're going to end up switching it out to a regular on/off switch. We never use the dimmer so it's kind of pointless. But is it dangerous in the meantime?

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