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What’s the buzz?

We have dimmers on many of the incandescent lamps in our house. When the lamp is dimmed, a faint buzzy whine can be heard. The sound doesn’t come from the dimmer but from the light bulb itself. Why does the dimmer make the bulb buzz?

Roy Sablosky, Sacramento California, US

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