I have had a light out in my track light system in the kitchen for months. This was the same fixture I had repaired once before because it had a short, so I assumed that the fixture was acting up again. I did not take the time to take it down and troubleshoot it, although it was on my retirement project list. The other day, we had an electrician come to the house for another project. He jiggled the bulb and it came on. Months of no light solved by a loose bulb (we thought)! Almost as soon as he left, the light stopped working again. I jiggled it and it came on again. I finally realized that the filament in the bulb was broken and it worked when we jiggled it because sometimes if the broken ends touched each other. Problem solved! Months of no light solved by replacing the bulb!
Don’t assume problems are more complicated than they are. Sometimes the solutions are simple.
