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think he's drawn a smokescreen over the problem now.
 
davesparks said:
How will that cause the light to partially illuminate when the switch is off?
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possibly that the light is seeing the smoke/s internal resistance as a path for sufficient current to make it glow ( as a parallel path to the switch)
 
telectrix said:
possibly that the light is seeing the smoke/s internal resistance as a path for sufficient current to make it glow ( as a parallel path to the switch)
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That was in reply to the post suggesting that the neutral and smoke interlink were switched.
As far as I can see that would only result in possibly blowing up the smoke head
 

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