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We have one of those touch on/off lamps and it has stopped going "off". When plugged in the light is on but no matter where I touch the base it will not shut off. I removed the bottom and there is a 1 1/2 circuit board, all seems connected. Is there a way to repair it?
I have seen Lowes has an adapter that you can get to acquire this feature for other lamps and appliances, will one of these get this lamp working again?
Yes. If there is enough room in the base you can install it in place of the original circuit. There are a few on the market that you just plug into the wall and plug th lamp into that. You will need to remove the old circuit board regardless of which way you go.
Congratulations! You actually have one of the circuits that failed "closed". Since these circuits are a capacitive sense type the "bad one may start to interfere with the operation of the new switch. Since you know the circuit has a failed component, IMHO it would be safer to remove it. It's possible for the failure to get worse. Best case: it shorts out and takeout the circuit breaker for the receptacle the lamp is plugged into. Worst case: there is current leakage to the lamp body which take a path to ground through you when you go to turn off the lamp at some point in time.
Yes, take out the circuit and wire nut the wires together securely. There are usually three wires: power in, power out and sense. Pull out the circuit and connect the lampcord wire to the wire going to the socket. Dissconnect the sense wire from the lamp body .
Will do and thanks for the Shocking Info! I take it seriously as Steve was the ground under a trailer once and that was more than enough lesson on the "grounding"
