When your fluorescent light flickers or makes a loud and annoying hum, a degrading ballast could be the cause. Replacing a ...

Q: My home is about 20 years old. My problem is with the lights in the kitchen. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. When I turn on the switch, the light flickers or just partially lights. I ...

If changing the light bulbs still does not solve the problem, the problem is most likely with the ballast, a transformer in the light fixture that changes the voltage from 120 volts to the required ...

An older area of the plant is now nicknamed “The Twilight Zone” because strange things happen there. Sometimes, lights flicker for several hours and then stop flickering. A fluorescent ballast will ...