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Old 09-02-2023, 10:34 AM
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Default Ghost voltage/current?

Probably not do it yourself or may not be big deal but here goes?

I replace bad 4 foot LED light in my garage with another 4 foot LED kit, different brand but guts looked same (from china). Simple job removing and rewired the hot, neutral, and ground. Used same hole for mounting so when quickly and easily.

Reset breaker, turned switch, and got lights. Now the weird part. When garage was kind of dark the new LED are faintly lite and the other old one was not? Which the other light kit did not do. Now I got ghost stray voltage causing the light to have faint glow in one of the lights?

Also new light lights up before the other?

I looked in switch which feed comes from multiple plug with fault breaker, didn’t see much except the nurtural was connected to light switch and hot wire tied together?

My thoughts builders may have wired the switch wrong? (most diagrams the hot wire to poles on switch?) which still get current do to alternating?

The new light might be more sensitive to ghost voltage that was there all the time?

Any thoughts?

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