Nooo, I didn't see that happen...

hbiss

hbiss

EC, Westchester, New York NEC: 2014
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Hawthorne, New York NEC: 2014
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EC
So, we go to sit down to dinner and I walk over to the switch on the wall and turn the light over the table on. When I do that it comes on at about half brightness then ramps up like it was on a dimmer over about three seconds to full brightness. Huhh?? I turn it off then back on again and it does the same thing. Turn it off and back on again now it works fine. I "tease" the switch thinking it's bad contacts but I can't get it to do it. Never done it before in the year we've been here and hasn't done it again. The fixture is a hanging chandelier with six 40W equivalent candelabra base flame tip LED bulbs. Can't be drawing much current. All the bulbs came up in brightness exactly together... like I said, it was like the fixture was on a dimmer.

The switches are Leviton Decora 3-ways that are backwired and as old as the house. I'm thinking that maybe it was the switch on the other end but playing with that one showed no problem. Interestingly, the dining room (and I think every room) was wired with a home run to the ceiling box. The dining room was correctly on a 20A small appliance circuit but whoever did it put the lighting on it too. I installed that fixture myself. I know there are receptacles that are daisy chained and back wired with #12. Wondering what someone may have plugged into a receptacle that could be feeding the lighting? Only my wire cutters will tell. I'm in the process of replacing every receptacle and switch and pig-tailing wherever possible.

So, unless it does it again, I saw nothing.

-Hal
 
Mouse or squirl was chewing on the wire at the time. After multiple hits it either gave up or was toasted.
 
hbiss said:
So, we go to sit down to dinner and I walk over to the switch on the wall and turn the light over the table on. When I do that it comes on at about half brightness then ramps up like it was on a dimmer over about three seconds to full brightness. Huhh??
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It could be wireless controlled 'smart' enabled lamps, try putting regular incandescent lamps in. I had a similar issue and it was the LED.
 
I would replace the LEDs with an other brand and see what happens.
I've had a few experiences where the LEDs were messing with others on the same switch. An other instance where one LED was messing with another on a different switch but same circuit.
 
I have two 3 lamp fixtures with the same type of lamps, that when you turn the switch on, the lamps do not turn on at the same time....one lamp in each fixture always lags the others by a noticeable amount of time. They are on a dimmer, but the dimmer is on the list of compatible dimmers for the LEDs
 
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