I have a malibu light question. I moved into a house with numerous landscape lights. The bulbs seemed to have burnt out on about 1/3. I tried to replace the bulbs. Some bulbs replaced and worked. Many new bulbs did not work. Why not? It is not the wiring because some lights down the line works. It is sporatic. Why wouldn't a new bulb work in a fixture? Do you think I need to repace the whole fixture or could there be some simple problem?
These Malibu lights usually just connect to the zip lead with a piercing connection and that could be bad or you can have a corroded socket. Malibu lights are basically junk. Someone gave me a big box of them and I just swap them out when they go bad.
they connect with a 2 pronged attachment to the wire. these corrode out and the light stops working. also the light socket itself could be corroded.
Intermatic is really good about sending replacement parts. Below is from their website ... -- pj
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In article , snipped-for-privacy@cs.com (Sennin) wrote: I have a malibu light question. I moved into a house with numerous landscape lights. The bulbs seemed to have burnt out on about 1/3. I tried to replace the bulbs. Some bulbs replaced and worked. Many new bulbs did not work. Why not? It is not the wiring because some lights down the line works. It is sporatic. Why wouldn't a new bulb work in a fixture? Do you think I need to repace the whole fixture or could there be some simple problem?
Art Todesco in news:nTQad.377357$Fg5.223722@attbi_s53:
Crappy zinc junk I guess..
There are electrical greases you coold pack in there, except the two contacts in the socket might be too close... presumably they would short.. I guess the min-breaker on the transformer would flip?
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