Flashing CFL - Will Water Cause This?

[TheScullster]

Hi all

Er indoors just rang to say that the landing light bulb is flashing even though it is switched off. From the description it sounds like a frequency of 1 flash per second approx. This seems to be a common occurence according to Google. Is it likely that damp in the landing light switch is causing this?

The reason I mention water is because she is stripping the landing paper and sloshing water around as she goes. I have told her to trip the breaker in the CU for the lighting circuit just to be safe.

TIA

Phil

[Andrew Gabriel]

Yes, if it didn't do it before.

[The Natural Philosopher]

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "TheScullster" saying something like:

It's to guide foreign agents in by parachute. Probably dates back to the Cold War.