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Unplug the touch lamp and remove the light bulb if it still doesn't work. Look inside the socket for a small brass tab. Use your fingers, needle-nose pliers or a small flat-head screwdriver to lift the tab slightly. If this tab does not come into contact with the bottom of the light bulb, the lamp will not work.
In respect to this, how do you wire a 3 way touch lamp?
How to Wire a Touch Lamp
- Attach the black wire from the plug to the black wire from the sensor.
- Look at your wires.
- Attach the white wire from the module to the black wire from the lamp, cap it by twisting the cap on.
- Attach the yellow wire to the metal body of the lamp.
Subsequently, question is, how do you fix a touch activated lamp?
How to Repair a Touch Lamp
- Troubleshoot the problem.
- Unplug the touch lamp, and pry off the bottom with a butter knife.
- Replace the touch sensor located at the base of the lamp.
- Check any fuses inside the lamp.
- Install a new power control transistor, called a thyristor or TRIAC.
Most lamps do use a tiny amount of electricity when plugged in and turned off. Almost all electrical components run in some form of standby mode and leech out small amounts of electricity. Lamps use very little because they have no computer parts or batteries.