I have all GE switches installed in my house. 3 are on the same circuit as my stove ignitor and when 3 of the 4 burners are ignited individually, all lights on that circuit turn off. Has anybody experienced this?
Sounds… ???
Could you be a little more specific: controller, devices, etc. ?
I’m sure that you have reproduced this several times? Sounds incredibly unrelated as the ignitors are typically only piezo’s and create and arc/spark to light the burners. After being lit, there is no further electrical activity that I am aware of. The actual current draw during a lighting event are miniscule.
In general, it is not good practice to have appliances, outlets and lighting on the same circuits. I would think the appliance should have it’s own breaker. Perhaps one of our expert electricians can chime in on this one.
I have a similar problem with a ge switch installed in a bedroom. this bedroom has a fan with a light on it. the ge switch is connected to only the light, however when the fan is turned either on or off, the ge switch turns the light off.
this happens every time.
my guess is the act of turning the fan on or off causes a slight sag or spike on the voltage going into the ge switch. the switch seems overly sensitive to voltage fluctuations and resets.
the same thing could explain what you are seeing.
The strange thing about these cases is that the lights stay off. Normally, these devices return to their last state.
I’ve had Z-Wave devices turn on (that were not on the same circuit) when our tread mill was in use. I plugged the tread mill into a noise blocking device which corrected it.
But I’m not sure if it was RF or PLC interference that caused the problem.
Your situation I would imagine could be the same issue.
JOD.
[quote=“JOD, post:6, topic:168004”]I’ve had Z-Wave devices turn on (that were not on the same circuit) when our tread mill was in use. I plugged the tread mill into a noise blocking device which corrected it.
But I’m not sure if it was RF or PLC interference that caused the problem.
Your situation I would imagine could be the same issue.
JOD.[/quote]
I’ve also seen a GE light turn on with electrical noise. It’s only done it once and that was a few weeks ago. I have not seen anything like this since. At least it isn’t like the old X-10 days when I’d wake up in the middle of the night and half the house was on! I agree with JOD, try a surge protector with EMI/EFI filtering and try to isolatate the stove on that and see if that solves the issue
mine were doing it in every room that had a fan. i disconnected the ground (exposed copper) and they would just flicker after that.
edit then replaced with Leviton and that issue went away completely.
or try matches…sorry, I couldn’t resist
hope the surge protector works for you, I haven’t had it happen to me yet
edit: +1 for Firebird if it is for the car, I still have mine from my HS days
Me Too ! '77, just like Smokey’s
Huge fan of the Bandit and that car, mine is a '68 and unfortunately needs some work since I have let it sit.
I’ll have to try that.
thanks!
Thanks for the suggestions. I ended up putting a surge protector on the stove and problem solved. The lights all stay on now and no flickering. The match was one solution I could have lived with but the wife wasn’t too happy with that option lol.
… And I have a '68 and '91 Firebird. Can’t get enough of them!
off subject, but have you priced items for the BIRD? Some one has lost their minds! even EBAy stuff is wigged out and most of it was used and in questionable shape