I have what I'll call a random LED E26 bulb. It has a driver of unknown design, outputting 52VDC to 2 parallel groups of 8 LEDs in series (dual die LEDs, so really 2 parallel of 16 LED dies in series).
It is plugged into a utility light fixture, two conductor wire, hot/neutral on a US 110AC supply.
I have read in the past about people who had their LED bulbs glow dimly when turned off, due to the hot wire remaining live and the neutral being switched off instead of the other way around, and the cause is capacitive coupling between the wires.
While this makes sense, I have a different situation. The LEDs are not dimly lit with the neutral switched off, but do dimly light up if I touch the plastic body of the light with my fingers. It is continuous light output not getting dimmer and dimmer still. It is definitely a plastic light body, measures infinite resistance to itself, to hot, neutral, and ground. My body is not in contact with any neutral or earth ground object, nor especially close to any wires. My other hand is touching nothing. It is not a grounded work surface.
How is this circuit being completed enough to make the LEDs glow?
It is plugged into a utility light fixture, two conductor wire, hot/neutral on a US 110AC supply.
I have read in the past about people who had their LED bulbs glow dimly when turned off, due to the hot wire remaining live and the neutral being switched off instead of the other way around, and the cause is capacitive coupling between the wires.
While this makes sense, I have a different situation. The LEDs are not dimly lit with the neutral switched off, but do dimly light up if I touch the plastic body of the light with my fingers. It is continuous light output not getting dimmer and dimmer still. It is definitely a plastic light body, measures infinite resistance to itself, to hot, neutral, and ground. My body is not in contact with any neutral or earth ground object, nor especially close to any wires. My other hand is touching nothing. It is not a grounded work surface.
How is this circuit being completed enough to make the LEDs glow?
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