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How do I turn this off? Keeps changing my lighting in every game I play : LogitechG
Main Post: How do I turn this off? Keeps changing my lighting in every game I play : LogitechG
What is your lighting setup?
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My garage is 480 square feet and it's about 90% homegym. I have one central overhead light that has two 2700k bulbs and one 4 foot downward facing lightbar over the workbench. It's really not enough light.
I'm thinking something that faces up (so when I'm on the ground I'm not staring into the bulbs), but I also need it to plug in versus being wired in. Any suggestions?
I originally ordered two more of the downward facing 4 foot bars but they won't help due to how much staring directly at them sucks.
Top Comment: 5 of these from Costco. $15-$20 each.
Losing my mind... Lights flicker post-renovation. Electrician says they can't find anything.
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Here is what's happening with the lights, and a live view of the feed going into the circuit breaker (you can see the flicker start in the graph around 9:36am):
Every light in the house is flickering like this at the same time.
We had our 115-year-old house renovated a year ago, and due to the age of the wiring, we paid them to replace... Everything. Everything from the meter to the panel was already modernized 10 years ago, but we had them rip out every last bit of cloth wrapped wiring to individual circuits.
Never once did we have light flickering issues beforehand... Now we've been having them multiple times per day for the past year. The electricians who did wiring job have been back out, but it never seems to flicker while they're here.
They have tested every connection at the panel, all the way back to the meter, and insist that everything is solid. An electrician buddy of mine said something about a bad neutral...well, they tested those as well but can't find an issue.
I don't know what to do. This never once happened before they came in, and since we had assurances that they replaced everything, I am still attributing this to a fault of the electrician. I also just have no idea what the actual problem is.
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What kind of light do you prefer in your home? 4000K, 3000K or something different?
Main Post: What kind of light do you prefer in your home? 4000K, 3000K or something different?
Top Comment: I bought bulbs from Costco that have switches in their bases that allow you to select the color. I prefer 4,000 everywhere because I don't like yellow lighting. 4,000 is closer to natural sunlight without stepping into the blue zone. These bulbs are all 1600 lumens and are dimmable.
How to tell Alexa to make my lights more white. The brightest you can have is called “Cool White”. But on the Feit App, you can make it more bright. “Cool White” on the Alexa still have a little of yellow tint. So how can tell Alexa to surpass that like my Fiet app can do?
Main Post: How to tell Alexa to make my lights more white. The brightest you can have is called “Cool White”. But on the Feit App, you can make it more bright. “Cool White” on the Alexa still have a little of yellow tint. So how can tell Alexa to surpass that like my Fiet app can do?
Top Comment: I found the name of the color I wanted by asking Alexa what color the light was. That’s how I learned that “Sandy Brown” is a nice blue hue. I have a routine that just tells the lights to go to that color instead of me trying to remember or telling everyone.
Question about my lights
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This is already going to sound bad but this problem started months ago. I live in an apartment complex and my bedroom light sometimes goes dim, or flickers between bright and dim. We’ve replaced the bulb twice since it started with no improvement, so we figured it was just people overloading our heating units (even though that has never happened). Only ever happens for less than a minute almost every night and ONLY in my bedroom. Our room only has a tv, ps5, and an led strip plugged in, so I don’t believe I’m overloading my own room. Tonight we had an advancement, and now my light is fully flickering on and off after being on for less than a minute. I figured I’d just leave it off and tell maintenance Monday since we have a strip of LED lights in my room. Just now our LED lights started flickering in the same pattern that the overhead light was, and continued to flicker after I unplugged them (they will not turn off for some reason?). Is this any type of emergency, or should it still be okay to last until Monday? Any guesses or pointers might be helpful as well because our maintenance isn’t very good and will suggest switching bulbs first.
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Alexa keeps turning off my lights at irregular intervals
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Hello all!
Is there a way to stop this? I've looked on the app and I see nothing out of the ordinary that would cause Alexa to turn my lights off at random intervals. Sometimes, they would turn off after 10 minutes, other times, 45 minutes or even an hour....but they ALWAYS turn off. Been like this since December.
Any advice?
Thanks!
Top Comment: Check under hunches, this can create the issue you have mentioned, that it routines. You haven’t created a routine that switch off off lights when there isn’t movement for example.
Lights flickering randomly throughout entire home. Help!
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I live in an older home. It has a 200 amp main panel and two small sub panels (40 amps each). As fr as large appliances (240v), I’ve got a water heater, dryer, central a/c and our stove. I hardly ever have more than two 240v appliances running at the same time. The lights in my house flicker randomly and get really dim and then go back to full brightness randomly. This occurs even if there’s only one or two lights on in the home. I’ve checked all wiring under the house for breaks and loose connections, there were none. I also checked everything and the attic and found nothing. All connections in all three panels are tight. Any suggestions as to where else to look? I’m thinking the issue is a bad neutral somewhere, and I’d like to resolve this ASAP so I don’t risk a fire. Any help/advice/pointers are greatly appreciated.
Top Comment: i had this issue, it was a.."bad neutral" or something. the power company had to run a wire to my neighbors ground until they could come out and fix it, which involved fixing something in a box across the street and running a new wire to my box. obviously i'm not an electrician lol
Anyone know why lights turn on by themselves?
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I'm currently home every night taking care of my younger siblings while my mom works nightshift. Last night after I showered, I noticed all her lights were on in her room. I shrugged it off as one of the kids waking up as he's prone to do so, I was just surprised he fell asleep so quickly. However, I talked to her this morning and she was upset with me for leaving all the lights on. Which I did not. I'm thinking it's something wrong with our circuits? I was wondering if the light can be flipped on if there's something electrically wrong? This just started happening last night but I don't want lights to be on while we're sleeping. It's a waste of power.
Any advice would be great!
Small edit: the first time was in her room only, the second time was in the living room. The kids can't access the living room due to a baby gate that thankfully still works. Thinking it might be the oldest (7f) sleepwalking but I'm confused on the gate part.
If it means anything, we did find a mouse recently but we searched everywhere and did everything to ensure they wouldn't come back. There's no signs they're in the house, but maybe they're the cause if they're still in the house somehow?
Edit 2: Thank you to everyone who told me it has to be psychically turned on/off, I'm thinking of putting cameras in this Sunday if it continues. It's most likely a sleep walker in my opinion, even though my mom is convinced it was technical (which you've all told me it can't be).
To those saying ghosts, I don't believe in that sort of thing and I doubt a ghost would be turning on lights in its free time anyways 😂
Also noticed random down votes on my replies, which is super weird seeing as I'm answering pretty normally. Not sure why people downvote for the heck of it
Top Comment: Were you clapping?
Please help me with a budget lighting setup?
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Not sure if this is the right place but I'm starting out making talking head videos for social media. Instagram, Youtube. I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max which I will be using and a ring light which I realize is not good enough.
I've watched this video which mentions I need the below. They all seem very expensive and not sure if all is needed and if so any cheaper alternatives?
- `a key light that has control over the colour temperature.
- Fill light
- Rim Light
- LED lights for colour
Top Comment: This looks like the generic three point lighting setup that is mentioned all over the place. You can defiantly get away with less. I'd start by playing around with the lights you have, and find places that have good light already, and use your ring light to add to that. A lot of lighting also depends on the look you want Sometimes people want the ring light next to the camera look, or a more contrasty look and less lights may work fine here.