[sdiy] OT: my lights are blinking!?!?

[James Husted]

Laser printers are notorious for this. They  periodically re-heat themselves
and that's the flicker cause. Any decent business sized laser printer should
be on it's own circuit. It gets worse when your printing a job and the
motors are on also. Be safe and save on fuses. Put the beast on it's own
breaker/circuit.
-James
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on 1/16/02 1:43 AM, CHoaglin at aol.com at CHoaglin at aol.com wrote:

I just hauled home a free color laser printer today from a local company..a
Tek Phaser 550. I'm getting some strange behavior now from all the lights in
the house, namely: 

Every single light in the house noticeably flickers/blinks at about 4hz, if
the motor/fuser are on...Usually this sort of thing happens with vacuum
cleaners etc when starting the motor..momentary voltage drop due to
increased current draw. I would normally expect this to only happen on the
circuit that the equipment is being run on, rather than throughout the
house, and I'm pretty sure the vacuum only makes this show up on one
circuit. Now, I am using the printer, which is rated 10 amps worst case, on
a 15 or 20 amp circuit along with 2 computers, 2 monitors, a VCR, and a
mixing board. So, I'm probably pushing the limits of the circuit..could it
be a line noise issue, or should I just find a sturdier circuit to put the
printer on? 

-Chrisw 


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