Our kitchen lights are all LED 120vac drop in bulbs. When I run my Festool vacuum and sander in the basement, the lights upstairs do a full on disco party. Any thoughts on what I can do to resolve this?
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Are you able to measure any voltage drop on the kitchen lighting circuit, and does the lighting dim/blink when the sander is running at idle, if you will, or only when the tool is loaded by having a workpiece present?– ThreePhaseEelCommented Mar 13, 2023 at 2:55
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2These questions keep coming. I am starting to wonder if its the noise from these appliances that's disturbing the leds rather than voltage.– Rohit GuptaCommented Mar 13, 2023 at 3:15
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Run the vacuum and the sander separately to see which appliance is the culprit– JasenCommented Mar 13, 2023 at 5:23
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Last time I checked festool's vacuum used a fairly big motor and lights dimming during starting would not surprise me. A "disco show" seems unusual though. Check that the brushes in the vacuum's motor are good.– JasenCommented Mar 13, 2023 at 5:23
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Just a little background on me: I have a little experience with electrical circuits but that was many years ago. I believe this is a line noise issue that keeps coming up on Stack Overflow and not a voltage drop issue. But I haven't found any good resources on how to control line noise. I know how I might do this in a low wattage DC circuit on a breadboard, but never heard of anything for residential circuits.– Luke PighettiCommented Mar 13, 2023 at 15:48
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