Timeline for How to voltage test GU10 a bulb socket
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| Jun 23, 2023 at 15:03 | comment | added | jay613 | I'll try this another way. There's pretty high chances you have a bad dimmer or bulb or they're incompatible. There's pretty low chances you have mysterious "voltage fluctuations" and that your radio shack multimeter can detect and display them. :) A joke, I always regret making assumptions but people here. Maybe you have a recording oscilloscope. I don't know. I just think your time is best spent trying to identify the bad component you have. | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 14:58 | comment | added | jay613 | If you voltage test the entire running circuit, and even if you assume that your test equipment is capable of revealing whatever voltage fluctuations are occurring, which is slightly possible, you still won't have narrowed it down. IMO my approach is fast and easy, you have a reasonable (not guaranteed) chance of isolating the problem, and perhaps even fixing it but having isolated it, if you still want to use test equipment, it will be easier to understand any results you see. | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 13:36 | comment | added | OhMyDIY | Thanks for this idea, will give it a try! But do I really need to do that, can't I just voltage test at the switch? (Already a good idea that I'm grateful for) | |
| Jun 22, 2023 at 15:35 | history | answered | jay613 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |