# Light fixture half on half off

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/light-fixture-half-on-half-off/843708>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 20, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/light-fixture-half-on-half-off/843708 "2019-11-20T14:24:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/light-fixture-half-on-half-off/843708/21 "2020-08-10T17:00:31Z")

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Update: finally dealt with this yesterday. (Needed to come up with a simple scaffold. Did it with a couple of 4 foot 2x4s upright, a horizontal 2x3 screwed into those and braced again the walls on the side, and a couple of 4x4s resting above (and screwed to) the 2x4s on one end and resting on the 6th step of a staircase on the other. Stepladder on top of that.)

Basically, it was a short within the fixture. I took down the fixture and attached the wires to a plug and plugged it in, which instantly blew that circuit. Which pleased me, because while it made no practical difference, I would rather not have had the issue caused by me doing a bad job of wiring in the fixture.

Put up a new fixture and all is good.

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