We have an outdoor light installed by previous owners, lights burned out since we bought the house. I changed bulbs, and found when light switch in closet nearby is turned on, the inside light goes on, and the outside bulbs go out, and when turned off, the outside bulbs go on. In other words, switch on in closet = lights off outside. Strange to me, but here's the really weird wired thing: With the new bulbs installed, light switch off in closet = still dim glow in closet light. Closet light never goes completely off - but between full bright and dim glow. At this point, outside lights are on, and inside light has a dim glow. Lights outside go between total on and total off. Remove outside lights, and closet becomes full binary again. I haven't traced the circuit, but there's one conduit that I can see. One end has the switch, the center has the closet light, and the other end has the outside lights. It looks like a self-contained conduit, which is impossible. Outside, there appear to be two wires running in, so I assume one of them is the feed from another location that I can't see, and then a branch over to the inside light and the switch. I figure there's a problem somewhere, so I took out the outside bulbs altogether. Note one other thing: around this time (same day, not sure about the hour), our electric dryer stopped putting out heat, but still turns. The dryer is in the same closet, appears to have a different circuit. The only change now in outside lights is that there are no bulbs whatsoever instead of the original burned-out bulbs. Can anyone help me sort this out?
Thanks,
Bruce Kimball from Louisville