# Home electrical wiring question:  light stays on continually.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-electrical-wiring-question-light-stays-on-continually/381057>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 19, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-electrical-wiring-question-light-stays-on-continually/381057 "2006-11-19T19:14:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ZurBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/71e660/32.png) [@ZurBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZurBob)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-electrical-wiring-question-light-stays-on-continually/381057/21 "2017-11-15T03:07:19Z")

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> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#):
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> Good news. Last posted in 2012.

Uhhh, 2012?

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-electrical-wiring-question-light-stays-on-continually/381057/22 "2017-11-15T03:16:13Z")

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> [@ZurBob](#):
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> Uhhh, 2012?

The OP last posted on the SDMB in 2012, so probably did not do too much damage with his/her electrical tinkering in 2006.

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**Author:** ![ZurBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/71e660/32.png) [@ZurBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZurBob)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-electrical-wiring-question-light-stays-on-continually/381057/23 "2017-11-15T03:30:18Z")

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Perhaps 2012 was the penultimate for the OP, but not for wesleyp.

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-electrical-wiring-question-light-stays-on-continually/381057/24 "2017-11-15T03:50:10Z")

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FFS. I was responding to a question from **Bryan Ekers** asking whether the OP had posted since 2006.

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**Author:** ![ZurBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/71e660/32.png) [@ZurBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZurBob)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-electrical-wiring-question-light-stays-on-continually/381057/25 "2017-11-15T04:49:29Z")

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Ookay:)

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**Author:** ![Khendrask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@Khendrask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khendrask)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-electrical-wiring-question-light-stays-on-continually/381057/26 "2017-11-15T12:36:46Z")

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I know, zombie, Buttttt…one possibility that I didn’t see mentioned, was installing LED bulbs instead of incandescent (or CFL). LED bulbs can glow just fine from leakage through older switches, especially the switches with a neon indicator to see them in the dark when off. This was especially true several years ago, before LED bulbs had drivers designed to attempt to prevent the problem, but the cheap, china WalMart LED’s still have that issue.

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