ledokwareng
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Hi,
I've got a lighting problem and I hope someone on the forum can help. I'm a Brit living in Jakarta, Indonesia, and last year had a chandelier fitted as a sort of centrepiece to our new home.
After a couple of months, we turned on the light one evening and noticed that several of the bulbs weren't lit up. After a few nights like that we turned it on again only for several more bulbs to fail to illuminate.
We called the technician who originally fitted the chandelier and he came and said that the cable between the ceiling and chandelier was to blame. He repaired it and everything was OK for a few weeks. Then a similar thing happened again, several lights failing to illuminate. A few days later a few more failed. This time the technician blamed the transformer and fitted a new one, This fixed the problem. A few weeks later when the same problem occurred yet again the technician fitted an entirely new chandelier and everything was fine until we turned the light on a couple of weeks ago. Of the 15 bulbs just five were functioning, A week or so later, another two bulbs failed to come on, so I'm now sat here typing this in a gloomy room with just three of the 15 bulbs providing any light.
Additional info. The original bulbs provided with the chandelier are 20W halogen/12V and are all still in working order. It's just certain positions on the chandelier that don't function.We've been using the same bulbs since the chandelier was new and they appear to be fine.
If the original problem was due to a faulty cable above the light fitting why would some of the bulbs light up and others not? If the problem is with the transformer, would that cause bulbs in some positions on the chandelier to not light up while others still work?
Besides looking for a new technician
what else should I do?
Thanks in anticipation.
I've got a lighting problem and I hope someone on the forum can help. I'm a Brit living in Jakarta, Indonesia, and last year had a chandelier fitted as a sort of centrepiece to our new home.
After a couple of months, we turned on the light one evening and noticed that several of the bulbs weren't lit up. After a few nights like that we turned it on again only for several more bulbs to fail to illuminate.
We called the technician who originally fitted the chandelier and he came and said that the cable between the ceiling and chandelier was to blame. He repaired it and everything was OK for a few weeks. Then a similar thing happened again, several lights failing to illuminate. A few days later a few more failed. This time the technician blamed the transformer and fitted a new one, This fixed the problem. A few weeks later when the same problem occurred yet again the technician fitted an entirely new chandelier and everything was fine until we turned the light on a couple of weeks ago. Of the 15 bulbs just five were functioning, A week or so later, another two bulbs failed to come on, so I'm now sat here typing this in a gloomy room with just three of the 15 bulbs providing any light.
Additional info. The original bulbs provided with the chandelier are 20W halogen/12V and are all still in working order. It's just certain positions on the chandelier that don't function.We've been using the same bulbs since the chandelier was new and they appear to be fine.
If the original problem was due to a faulty cable above the light fitting why would some of the bulbs light up and others not? If the problem is with the transformer, would that cause bulbs in some positions on the chandelier to not light up while others still work?
Besides looking for a new technician
what else should I do?Thanks in anticipation.
