Me plugging my monitor into my mobo instead of my graphics card for three years. I thought I had just gotten reeeeally unlucky in the silicon lottery.
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Or getting a high refresh rate monitor and not changing the refresh rate in your os.
Afaik fullscreen should bypass that one.
Last time I did that I just didn't get any output to the monitor, isn't that how it's supposed to work?
If your cpu doesn't have integrated graphics yeah.
Hmmm, maybe that's what happened, but I'm pretty sure I was getting output without the GPU plugged in, but that was a long time ago
In my computer once I installed my graphics card the integrated gpu was disabled, but there was a BIOS setting to keep both enabled
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Massively depends on the system.
if you get a F series CPU with no igpu then you will likely get no output.
one time i was testing something with the monitor in the motherboard, which worked fine, and then i put the gpu in the motherboard but forgot to plug the monitor in the gpu, and it showed a black screen.
there might be systems where you can plug both a gpu and the igpu into the monitor and it'll use one for most things and the other for games and stuff (i dont remember what that is called), but i have only ever seen that in laptops so idk
I'm pretty sure the fan was not the only thing set to "dim".
I was gonna say “CFLs just plug into a normal socket, those don’t generally just ‘go bad’”
The text is about a halogen bulb, though, not a CFL. Those generally use flanged prongs.
It still wouldn't be dim, it would either work or not. If it's dim, it's either a bad bulb or a setting on the light housing causing less voltage (I think?) to make it to the bulb.
or a setting on the light housing causing less voltage (I think?) to make it to the bulb
Aren't you just describing dimmers, the topic of the post?
Exactly!
I'm saying the likelihood of the socket/housing causing a dim light is vanishingly small, so OP should have caught this 6 years ago if they had even a passing understanding of how lights work.
My immediate asumption without looking it up was either it's not getting the right voltage or enough amperage since electricity is generally passed through to lights, so it would either work or not. So, either the bulb is bad (old lights get dim) or there's a setting somewhere on the fan or switch messing with the voltage or current. My first guess is the bulb, and if two fail, I'd check the fan.
After a quick search, apparently dimmers are fancier than that, and they actually modify the signal instead of adjusting voltage or amperage. But my initial intuition wasn't far off. The power is indeed on or off, and something else was interfering (the dimmer). If the fan didn't have the capability to adjust brightness, there would be no reason to interfere with the signal.
Simple logical deduction based on a passing understanding of electricity and lights would've led to the problem.
it's less that dimmers are fancier than you thought and more like adjusting voltage or amperage without ridiculous losses is hard and or significantly more expensive than you thought.
Dimmers are incredibly simple with just triac and a variable resistor. However LEDs and CFLs do not work well with triac dimmers since they normally are expecting full voltage. Thats why you need "dimmable bulbs" becsuse they have circuitry to account for different voltages.
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Depends on the CFL. I had to replace one in a fixture in my new house a few months after I bought it, and it was some goofy round one with a rectangular attachment point and some clips. Thankfully it was pretty easy to replace and was easily gettable from Dom Depot, but I was definitely surprised by the socket when I went to replace it.
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Worst case scenario just replace the light kit and check your wiring but yeah obviously that wasn't OP's issue
Of course doing that with the fan still together/hanging is much more of a pain than just getting a new one, usually, especially if the fan is old. Most other electricians I know don't bother doing ceiling fan repairs, they'll swap em but any more than that's not worth their time. I'll do whatever but I'll be up front about it.
Especially since you're usually doing it for retired folks who can only afford so much...
Okay, I'm sorry, but this is totally true and heterosexual. I have seen two people do this in real life.
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My grandmother gifted me their old TV back in the 2000s because it was only showing black and white.
They had a mechanic look at it, who said it was broken
There was a button to change the saturation and get the TV back to show colours
Edit: There and their
I know someone who bought a new laptop and complained that the display broke after only a couple weeks
It only showed a super dim display and the viewing angle sucked
I pressed the fancy new "privacy screen" button and it "worked flawlessly" again
Ha. I had a coworker gift me a high end amp because the volume was all crackly. Opened it up sprayed electronic cleaner on the volume rheostat thingy and gave it a few back and forth turns. Perfect sound. I offered it back but he'd already purchased a new one. :/
I had something similar, except it was a blown fuse.
Granted, the fuse was soldered in place and you had to take it apart to get to it. But once it was replaced it worked perfectly. No idea why the fuse blew either, unless it was just defective.
Anon has never heard of lamps, either.
Once you get used to proper bias lighting, suddenly overhead lamps become insufferable. I don't know how people do it.
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His life was set to ‚dim’ for six years
Cause in the dark no one could see his tears
Pro tip: Modern American fans are required to have a voltage limiter chip to dial down the lights. They fail. Lots. If your fan lights don't work, buzz, hum, whatever, take it down and cut the little fucker out, wire back together with wire nuts.
I've replaced two crappy fans with really nice units I found in the trash. 100 how-to's on YT.
I do the same thing with fuses. I would send a picture of my little heater but I lost it in a house fire.
This feels...wrong.
Human Moment™. One of my former professors in Uni, the one I respected the most because she was one of the wisest and most perceptive people I'd met at that point, confided in us that it took her however many years since their introduction to realise that the small light on some wall-mounted light switches was meant as a guidance light if it's pitch black.
I always thought those were just there to incentivize turning it off at the breaker /s
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idk if this is gay or fake, but it's funny as shit
anon gets owned by a fan
You know, you only need to be around 5% smarter than the tool you are using to be successful with it. Humanity is right fuckered isn't it?
When you don't read the "friendly" manual.
I have one of those fans. It only has a remote, no pull chains. I fucking hate that thing as much as I have ever hated anything in my life. It's so shitty. You would think having buttons would make it easier to use than a pull chain but they somehow made it even worse. Both the light and fan use the same Up and Down arrows to change the setting but there's a delay of a second or two between hitting the button and the fan actually changing (if it changes at all). There's also no indicator of which setting you're on currently (which is the only annoying part about pull chains). Also couldn't get it to switch directions for winter even after spending probably an hour on their site and Youtube looking at documentation and trying shit.
My remote controlled fan sounds like yours except it still has a physical switch on the side of the housing to change direction. I still hate the fan but thought I would share just in case you never checked.
Yea that was the first thing I looked for but this one doesn't have it. I'm like 90% sure I have the correct instructions to do it but it just does not work. These things are shit and whoever designed this should be ashamed of themselves.
There are consequences to being stupid.
Oh, 4chan is back Your post is how I got to know it.
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