Here’s hoping for the title of Must Boring Thread With A Title That Includes “Blow” And “3-way”…
I sit in my living room, slogging through the night shift of phishing and malware, half watching Mulan for the 10th time with 1/8th of an eyeball, when I hit the ‘stop’ button on my PS3 remote…and at the exact instant that my finger presses the button, the 3-way bulb in the lamp by my desk clinks down to the mood light setting, and that is now the only setting it has.
Coincidence or electric boogaloo?
ETA: It may be worth noting that my PS3 warned me earlier that the batteries in my remote were almost dead…
EATA: Or maybe that was warning me that a controller was almost dead…is there feedback with the remote too?
The three way in your light circuit is not connected in any way to the remote. It has not ability to receive any information from the remote. I realize there seems to be some cosmic significance to such things.
well, just be difficult… the ps3 going on pause might provide a momentary change in house power that’s enough to kill the failed component… if it was already failing. So it could be your fault… but it would’ve failed within minutes anyways.
Complete WAG, I know nothing of electricity, or electronics.
In our house in Japan, dad was on a step-ladder fixing the crappy wiring in an overhead fixture. Just as he finished, the alarm in his Vulcain Cricket* went off. He thought he was being electrocuted and fell off of the ladder.
*NB: That’s not actually dad’s watch – which I have, BTW. It’s just the first example of a Vulcain’s alarm that I found.
One possible way these events could be coupled is if your use of the remote was “physical” enough to vibrate the lamp a smidge. But coincidence is my bet.
I do know electricity and electronics, and a PS3 changing state like that would NOT cause any change in house power detectable by even the most sensitive test instruments, let alone cause something that could blow a bulb. Pure coincidence.
I once fell in an indoor concrete squash court with no windows. With no lights on the place was pitch black, as in you literally can’t see your hand in front of your face. Anyway when I fell I smacked my head into a concrete wall and at that very instant the court lights went out. Of course I thought I was unconscious and was amazed that I could still think clearly.
Did my head turn the lights off? No, just a coincidence.
No bleeding, just a sore head and me thinking I’m unconscious, wow, I’m unconscious yet I’m fully aware! Awesome! I called out to my squash partner, “Matt!”
“Yeah?”
“Matt, I’m unconscious!”
“I don’t think you are.”
“I am, it’s black I can’t see anything.”
“Yeah, the lights are out.”
" Oh…"
