Bob Turkovich
12-27-2010, 6:38 PM
Ok, twice in the last two days I've gone down to my basement workroom and have found the lights on in the bathroom adjacent to my workroom. I've been the only one in my family in the basement during this time period and I do not recall using the "facilities" in either case.
The bathroom lights are on a different circuit breaker than the workroom. The lights are controlled by one 2-way sliding dimmer switch w/ a horizontal on/off toggle. The switch shares a switch box with a digital timer for the bathroom ceiling fan (which was not turned on.) Everything else on the same circuit breaker seems to be working properly.
The only other point is that I recently completed a circuit breaker "mapping" of every light fixture and receptacle in the house. Everytime Iturned the circuit breaker off/on for this particular circuit, the GFCI in the circuit would trip. Simply resetting the GFCI would turn the circuit back on.
Do I have a faulty dimmer switch? (It's about 7 years old.) Is my GFCI issue related? Should I be looking in the yellow pages for my local chapter of Ghosthunters?
The bathroom lights are on a different circuit breaker than the workroom. The lights are controlled by one 2-way sliding dimmer switch w/ a horizontal on/off toggle. The switch shares a switch box with a digital timer for the bathroom ceiling fan (which was not turned on.) Everything else on the same circuit breaker seems to be working properly.
The only other point is that I recently completed a circuit breaker "mapping" of every light fixture and receptacle in the house. Everytime Iturned the circuit breaker off/on for this particular circuit, the GFCI in the circuit would trip. Simply resetting the GFCI would turn the circuit back on.
Do I have a faulty dimmer switch? (It's about 7 years old.) Is my GFCI issue related? Should I be looking in the yellow pages for my local chapter of Ghosthunters?