topic Re: Luminara Candle Trouble in Home

Luminara Candle Trouble

Hetty — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 01:28:20 GMT

Last night I posted on Community Chat and realized I should have put it on Home to get more response.

Some of my luminara candles are turning on by themselves in remote control mode. I had them set in July and then in mid-November, they began turning on. Five of them are doing it. They are located in my family room where I have my television. They come on three or four times a month. I am not using any kind of remote when they turn on, but the TV is on and sometimes the DVR is on pause.

Is anyone else experiencing this? What would cause them to turn on?

I love my luminara candles and have no intention of getting rid of them. I am just curious about their apparent independent behavior.

Re: Luminara Candle Trouble

nana59 — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 01:40:14 GMT

Who ya gonna call---ghost busters!! lol....

Re: Luminara Candle Trouble

Mom2Dogs — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 01:41:09 GMT

well that is interesting...I do know that we have several outdoor lights that turn on automatically when motion is detected (which I know that is NOT how the Luminara candles work) but all of a sudden they would come on and go off for no reason.

We could just not figure out what was wrong so I contacted the company and they told me it was an indication that the batteries were getting low, so we changed the batteries and it has worked just fine since then. You might try changing the batteries in one of the candles and see what happens.

Re: Luminara Candle Trouble

Hetty — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 02:15:21 GMT

The batteries were the first thing I checked, and they are good. When the batteries are low in my luminara candles, they flicker and then quit.

Funny that you should mention ghosts in this thread...

...Because, the candles worked fine from July until the middle off November, when we brought into the house an antique filing cabinet purchased at the local antique mall. Seriously, we brought it into the house and I walked into the family room and the candle on my coffee table was on. It was off when we left the house to pick up the cabinet. Eeek!

Since then, sporadically, they have been turning themselves on. Now that everyone thinks I am crazy, I really do want to know a reasonable cause.

Re: Luminara Candle Trouble

January121 — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 04:39:50 GMT

@nana59 wrote:
Who ya gonna call---ghost busters!! lol....

Lol ... you took the words right out of my mouth!!!!!

Re: Luminara Candle Trouble

Nataliesgramma — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 10:47:42 GMT

Try moving them to another room and see what happens....

Re: Luminara Candle Trouble

Hetty — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 21:23:51 GMT

The candle that turns on the most frequently is on my coffee table. I am going to move that one into the kitchen, away from the TV and see what happens. I am thinking it must be the TV causing them to turn on because the candles in my kitchen and foyer do not turn on by themselves. We will see what happens.

The timing of my luminara "trouble" did make me wonder if we had a bigger issues than malfunctioning candles. LOL

Re: Luminara Candle Trouble

blondegirl — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 16:06:16 GMT

maybe they are just malfunctioning - not sure what the life expectancy is of these or the mirage candles but I have a couple that are barely a year old that just won't work anymore. I am not buying any more $40+ candles becasue I just thnk they don't hold up. I was excited about the upcoming TSV lantern until two candles died in the past few weeks...

Re: Luminara Candle Trouble

mrosario — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:09:53 GMT

OMG, that just happend to my Luminara candle in my room. I was watching a movie and suddenly the candle turned on. The remote control is stored away in a drawer! I honestly thought I had a ghost in my room. I found this thread and seems I'm not alone. Should I be worried?

Re: Luminara Candle Trouble

pattypeep — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:19:05 GMT

wrote:
Who ya gonna call---ghost busters!! lol....

@nana59

Re: Luminara Candle Trouble

Hetty — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 03:51:58 GMT

wrote:
OMG, that just happend to my Luminara candle in my room. I was watching a movie and suddenly the candle turned on. The remote control is stored away in a drawer! I honestly thought I had a ghost in my room. I found this thread and seems I'm not alone. Should I be worried?

Please don't be worried. If your ghost is like mine, he/she is harmless and apparently enjoys candlelight

Funny to see my old thread pop up. My candle remote was in a drawer when the candles turned on in my family room. Sometimes they turned on when I was not in the room and I would return to see one or more doing their little flicker dance.

The TV was always on when the candles turned on. That day when I brought in the antique filing cabinet, I had left the TV on pause when we picked up the cabinet, so the TV was on when we were not home and the candle lit itself.

My candles continued to turn on for about a year and then stopped until November 2017. Something different started happening. My window taper candles (different candles than the original ones) in our front room started turning on when my husband was watching a new TV in that room. He discovered this new TV remote could turn on and off all of my remote enabled luminara candles. . My old TV remote for the family room TV does not turn them on.

The common denominator is the television. It is always on when the candles turn themselves on. I think I can rule out Casper.

Good luck with your candles!

Re: Luminara Candle Trouble

mrosario — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 21:16:58 GMT

wrote:
wrote:
OMG, that just happend to my Luminara candle in my room. I was watching a movie and suddenly the candle turned on. The remote control is stored away in a drawer! I honestly thought I had a ghost in my room. I found this thread and seems I'm not alone. Should I be worried?
Please don't be worried. If your ghost is like mine, he/she is harmless and apparently enjoys candlelight

Funny to see my old thread pop up. My candle remote was in a drawer when the candles turned on in my family room. Sometimes they turned on when I was not in the room and I would return to see one or more doing their little flicker dance.

The TV was always on when the candles turned on. That day when I brought in the antique filing cabinet, I had left the TV on pause when we picked up the cabinet, so the TV was on when we were not home and the candle lit itself.

My candles continued to turn on for about a year and then stopped until November 2017. Something different started happening. My window taper candles (different candles than the original ones) in our front room started turning on when my husband was watching a new TV in that room. He discovered this new TV remote could turn on and off all of my remote enabled luminara candles. . My old TV remote for the family room TV does not turn them on.

The common denominator is the television. It is always on when the candles turn themselves on. I think I can rule out Casper.

Good luck with your candles!

Thank you much for the clarification!!!! I tested all of the buttons of my TV remote and discovered that that is the culprit!!! Hahahaha.... I'm still laughing here....

Re: Luminara Candle Trouble

Nataliesgramma — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:19:47 GMT

I agree with @Hetty my TV remote turns mine on in the family room.....

it is the remote for the Smart TV not Directv......