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Ok - this is going to sound odd but a good customer of mine has a fault on a lighting circuit - the odd thing is that the smell was like the "cap" guns from my early days!

Any suggestions of what might make that smell (assuming you remember it too)

I've given them a quick temporary fix for tonight so they don't have use of 3 sets of lights .......... and will be going back tomorrow when its light and I have more time

Thanks
 
Is this one of those “shot in the dark” faults or is it gonna be easy to fix like “shooting fish in a barrel” but don’t “jump the gun” or you might end up “shooting yourself in the foot”

Can’t think of any more gun puns!!
 
What about a burnt out transformer somewhere, just thinking of the smell of melted plastic.
 

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