dgallup
Automotive
- May 9, 2003
- 4,715
I got back home last Wednesday night from a week of vacation to find my house air conditioning out. I could tell there had been storms and power outage(s). My ~50 year old house has several rooms with built in lighting using the old fat 4' fluorescent tubes. About half of the tubes were not turning on. It took about 36 hours to get the AC working including 2 nights when I ran my attic fan to cool down the house with the windows open. Due to tropical storm Bertha and subsequent weather events the relative humidity inside and out was 99%. I noticed that by Friday morning in some rooms 100% of the fluorescent tubes were not working. I thought what ever electrical trauma that had occurred had taken out some of the tubes and/or ballasts. However, 2 days after the return of the blessed AC, all but one of the lights is working completely normally.
So does high relative humidity stop fluorescent lights from working and does this present any kind of hazard?
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So does high relative humidity stop fluorescent lights from working and does this present any kind of hazard?
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The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that isn't included in this version of Windows.