Here is a link to a .gif showing the flickering: https://ift.tt/2JjoS0u bit of back story... sorry this is so long.The light and exhaust fan are on the same switch, which drives me crazy. I wake up in the middle of the night and go in the bathroom, and the fan wakes up my wife. I decided I wanted to put the light and fan on separate switches. So I go buy new switches. I get home, turn off the breaker, unscrew the faceplate and receptacle and pull the receptacle out of the wall. At this point I realized I needed to cut a wider hole in the wall and get a bigger box. At this point, I haven’t done anything except pull the receptacle out of the wall.I screw the receptacle back in, flip the breaker back on, and nothing. No light, no fan, no power.... wtf. So I flip the breaker back off, unscrew the receptacle, then flip the breaker back on. The light and fan come back on, with the receptacle out of the wall. Weird.... so I start screwing the receptacle back in (while the light and fans are on) and the light/fan turn off. Ugh.I turn the breaker off, pull the receptacle back out and find that one of the wires in the wire nut was coming loose. I tighten the nut up, screw the receptacle back in the wall, flip the breaker back on, and the light and fan comes back on! Great, then the light starts flickering... it has never flickered until now, after I didn’t really do anything. Sometimes it flickers immediately after turning on, sometimes it flickers after a few minutes, sometimes it flickers after hours.This is an LED lamp, I pulled the glass dome off to see an LED panel in it.It is good to note, I have the same light in my hallway (separate circuit) and it occasionally flickers, generally only after it being on for a few hours. Same light in the basement, with no flicker.So here is what I have done so far to try to fix:I replaced the switch, still flickers.The wires and nuts were covered in some sort of grease, I cleaned them off and replaced the wire nuts, still flickers.I replaced the pig-tailed wire for hot and return wire, still flickers.A coworker suggested it could be a grounding issue. I bought a ground tester (seen in video) and it seems to test fine.I replaced the pig-tail off of the grounds. Still flickers.The only thing I can think of next is to try to replace the light with something new.Does anyone have any other thoughts? via /r/DIY https://ift.tt/2NMmOkX
