My kids bathroom light keeps turning itself off after about 5 minutes. Then after 10 minutes or so it will turn itself on again, and so forth. I am wondering if this is something relatively simple that I can fix?
Electrical – What would cause a bathroom light to turn off during operation
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Best Answer
An intermittent problem like this could be caused by a combination of a loose connection and the waste heat from the bulb. As the bulb and light fixture heat up, they expand eventually causing the loose connection to be broken, turning off the light. With the light off, they cool down and shrink, remaking the connection so the light turns on again.
This could be dangerous as you could get arcing across the connection at the points where the light turns on or off, which can cause electrical fires.
To find and fix the problem: