• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    24 hours ago

    Last week at work, we had the lights on in the morning and as we went for lunch, I flipped the switch to turn them off. In that moment, you hear a loud bang and the lights won’t turn back on anymore.

    The next day, a technician comes in to look at it. He puts the fuse back in and all the lights work again. He decides to check all the capacitors on the lamps in case one of them blew out and finds nothing.

    In the week before that, one of the fluorescent tubes got swapped, so that’s our only clue why something like this might happen. Kind of wild that it can just go bang with nothing to show for it, except the blown-out fuse.