Why Are My Light Bulbs Blowing?

Dream Team Air Conditioning, Heating, Plumbing and Electrical Podcast

"If you don't have a surge protection on your main panel and your grounding is not correct you get lots of little micro surges every single day."

- Gareth Kelly, Home Service Expert

Gareth Kelly, an advisor to Jim Klauck, A.K.A. Check A Pro Joe and the Check A Pro Radio Show joins the program today. Check A Pro Joe received a question from a radio show listener - "Why do my light bulbs continue to blow?"

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Podcast Episode Transcript:

If you don't have a surge protection on your main panel and your grounding is not correct you get lots of little micro surges every single day... This is the checker pro radio show checker pro Joe has assembled a team of pre-qualified home service contractors to bring you the latest in services products and techniques now here's your host the man with a hard hat and tool belt Check A Pro Joe unfortunately this happens a lot and we're not sure if it's a poor quality light bulb or something wrong with our electrical system and what that is why do my light bulbs blow out frequently I've asked an expert in the electrical system in your home Gareth Kelly from dream team to join me here on the program today to answer that question Gareth how are you I'm doing good Joe thanks for having me here today hey it's great to have you here so why do my light bulbs blow out frequently what's going on well that's a great question Joe light bulbs blow it frequently because there's multiple reasons a little bit of what you touched on was the quality of the light bulb mostly they all are light bulbs are LED but like you know ten years ago when LED wasn't as popular as it is today you would have got a light bulb say at Home Depot and I might say that light bulb last 2000 hours and I'd like bold media cost $2.00 but you may have seen other light bulb that cost $4 but that lasted twice as long so it was built better so those definitely last longer the newer bulbs the LED bulbs and stuff like that you could be having a couple different issues again it's the quality of them so you spend more money and buying a better quality bulb it's going to last longer but you could also be having an issue inside your home So what most people don't know Joe is that inside your home you know if you don't have a surge protection on your main panel and you're grounded is not correct you get lots of little micro surges every single day a lot of people think the surges come from about say what you do that's when you get a big surge and you lose lots of things but we were always taught the garden hose analogy so like if your garden hose rated for 100 pounds of pressure and you put 150 to last but overtime may create a bubble but 300 pounds of pressure is going to blow right away but over time 100 pounds 110 hundred 150 will create that opposed to create a bubble in it and it'll blow so the same thing with inside your home you've got your dishwasher turn around if you go refrigerator turn on if you got your dryer turn these are all motor rated appliances your air conditioning your condenser your furnace so when they start and stop they send little micro surges all throughout your home and not shortens the life of all the LED chips and the LED circuit boards and everything like that in your home so that's one of the biggest reasons that we see bulbs and stuff not lasting as long as they should and so they have you know the proper ground system and the surge protection apply that better quality light bubble make those last longer Gareth and his team from dream team can come out and do an inspection of your panel make sure everything is grounded right and install a surge protector for the whole house which is handy because that means you don't need it for a specific thing like a computer or TV it can be for the whole home and it will help save your light bulbs as well that is true but we always recommend them more the merrier so if you're going to expensive TV I like these protected that a couple of different points they actually make surge protective outlets as well so if you get an expensive piece of equipment do you want to definitely always didn't want to the panel but putting it on several pieces of clothing that are really expensive basically some of the high end HVAC equipment they also should have surge protection right on the equipment or you know cause some of these control boards are motors they cost thousands of dollars to replace you know surge protections and expensive compared to replacing you know some of the stuff equipment and circuit boards and their HVAC equipment or replacing refrigerators and all that stuff that we can't get right now it's not like you know few years we're really walk in and walk out refrigerator same day now we may have to wait two weeks on it exactly so it's always good to protect our appliances and you're right circuit boards are the first thing to go whether it's in your washer dryer your refrigerator years ago we didn't have circuit boards in there they were very basic in your garage door opener they can be fried very easily your modem your computers you really want to protect it as well as you can that power coming in off the street isn't necessarily as pure as you think it is it's kind of like water coming in from the street you may want to have a water softener and a water filtration system right it's not pure so you need to do what you can at the home hey Gareth this has been great information thank you so much for joining me today awesome thanks Joe thanks again for having me all of Gareth's information is located in the description of this podcast he's with dream team air conditioning heating plumbing and electrical they're your source for everything in your home when it comes to getting things done with your heating and your air conditioning your plumbing and electrical like I said once again Gareth thank you so much for joining me today thanks joe take care cheka pro is your local source for pre-qualified contractors stay tuned for more of the Check A Pro radio show.