Touch lamp turning on by itself at night???
Touch lamp turning on by itself at night???
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We have a touch lamp where when we touch it, it gets brighter and brighter until it goes off again.
Last nite I turned off the lamp and went to bed. I wake up and my wife says "why did you turn the lamp on"?
I say "I didn't"
She says "That's spooky"
So, why did the lamp come on?
I don't know how one works.
Is it by electro statics? Or heat? Or what?
Is this why you don't see these things any more.
This is the first time I had one.
Thanks
Last nite I turned off the lamp and went to bed. I wake up and my wife says "why did you turn the lamp on"?
I say "I didn't"
She says "That's spooky"
So, why did the lamp come on?
I don't know how one works.
Is it by electro statics? Or heat? Or what?
Is this why you don't see these things any more.
This is the first time I had one.
Thanks





RE: Touch lamp turning on by itself at night???
Or ghosts?
Spooky indeed...
It probably works by detecting the mains hum on your finger when you touch it.
I suppose random electrical static could trigger it, since it's likely to be pretty sensitive.
RE: Touch lamp turning on by itself at night???
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RE: Touch lamp turning on by itself at night???
We just got the lamp during the summer so it is the first winter. No cat but it is on a shelf with some clothes.
I can move the clothes to touch it and nothing happens.
I have no explaination what happened.
I personally shut it off like any other nite.
The kids say they did not come in and turn it on.
I would wake if they entered the room anyway.
RE: Touch lamp turning on by itself at night???
Do yourself a favor and take out the touch control and put a mechanical switch in. It will only get worse.
Other than that, I think they are great
RE: Touch lamp turning on by itself at night???
In college I built my now wifey a touch lamp. They work by sensing the 60Hz field you are immersed in while being in any modern home. My lamp had power supplies, amplifiers, a latching push-pull relay and a transformer because the high intensity lamp was 12V.
It worked great...
She loved it....
One day she set it on a metal milk crate.....
It went insane...
It melted into slag...
She still married me. Woo Hoo!
RE: Touch lamp turning on by itself at night???
I showed my wife the replies and she says she will sleep in the bedroom tonight. Being there is no ghost. Woo Hoo!
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RE: Touch lamp turning on by itself at night???
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RE: Touch lamp turning on by itself at night???
RE: Touch lamp turning on by itself at night???
Just to provide a real life data point to the claims of RF,
my wife owns a HAM radio rig and whenever she does CW [morse code] with her Dad, the touch lamp we have would come ON and OFF with her transmissions!
Suggest looking around for RF sources.