Flourescent tubes gently flickering

You really out to throw out all those old nylon shirts :-)

Check you have not managed to switch the neutral rather than the live.

(does the flickering / glow (in the dark) get brighter if you place you hand on the tube?)

Andy Burns ( snipped-for-privacy@adslpipe.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Pffffftttt...

John Rumm ( snipped-for-privacy@nowhere.null) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Would that really make a difference? I'll check tonight.

Dunno. Again, I'll check.

:-

Generally either a suppressor across the switch thats leaking current, or cable capacitance between L/swL or N/swN.

NT

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

Check the Electricity Supply Co haven't sneakily installed a massive substation on the other side of the wall.

Or even a high power radio transmitter station.

Because if you stood any where near the Rugby radio station holding a Flourescent tube, whilst it was transmitting, it would light (glow).

I know a story about that:

It did on mine! (previous house owners sparks had wired an outbuilding light with a switched neutral - did much as you described)