Do flat plate light switches always stick out a bit from the wall?




My builder / electrician is telling me that the flat plate light switches we have bought (and he is installing) always stick out a bit from the wall (i.e. are not completely flush). Is this the case? These are the flat plate switches with no edging so completely flat.
Unless the walls are perfectly flat around the switches (most walls aren't) and the metal back boxes are deep enough to accommodate the switch properly, they will never be a good fit and will sit awkwardly with one or more edges sitting slightly proud.

When you see these low profile flat plate switches in the shops they are always mounted on nice flat pieces of wood or plastic so look great. Once fitted in the home, the reality is somewhat different!
@derek higgs interesting, mine lights up the kitchen like daylight normally! thanks for this, if you go into settings, there’s a setting called backlight which has options on or 1 min; i cahnged mine to 1 min, just nipped downstairs (at 12:02 am) and the kitchen is in darkness! i’m unsure when it went off but if you change the backlight to “on” it will light up all night. peter problem is a bad capacitor on the power board. caution if repairing yourself as capacitors in tv's hold a charge long after set is powered off and can be lethal. 
  
 when looking at your power board for a bad cap look at the top of the capacitors. a bad cap will have a noticable "bulging" on the top of it compared to others. be sure to note polarity of capacitor (will have a "-" on one side indicating negative. to fix on/off issue simply unsoldered bad capacitor and solder in a new one with same voltage and capacitance rating being sure the new capacitor is oriented the same as the old one was before it was removed. *If you own a front loading washing machine and it begins to leak water from underneath, the first thing to learn is where is the water leaking from. On my Frigidare washer (GLTF1240A), there is a lower panel underneath the loading door. There are two philips screws to remove and then the panel can be removed. Use a flashlight as you run a load of clothes. I found the water was coming from the bottom of the round wash tank, where several bolts hold it together.* floor lamps should have an overall height of roughly 58”-64” (147-163 cm) based on the standard sitting height of a person on a couch or chair. the bottom of the floor lamp shade should be roughly at or above a person’s sitting eye level and should try to match the edges of similar lighting fixtures within the space. hi [@tino52](/u/tino52)

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however, there might be other factors that don’t show easily - e.g. radio noise like other wifi or bluetooth devices, badly filtered appliances, quality of your power supply, external circuitry, …

i agree with this, it could be any of a number of things. you are c… i've wondered this myself. all of my black neighbors in my apartment buildings back in to the parking spots. the funny thing is, they can't seem to back in straight. i don't know what it is. one of my neighbors even purposefully takes up two spots so his truck won't get scratched. good question. Hello guys  
  
I had the same problem. My LCD ViewSonic VX 924 has been blinking   
  
For repar it i changed the following capacitors : 100uF/400v  
330uF/25v and 330uF/35v   
  
if that always flickers you can also change the two 470uF/25v capacitors  
The link for a pic Alime and Capacitors   
http://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?image=alimefsp0351pi01.jpg  
  
DO NOT TOUCH NOTHING D'OTHERS ANS DISCONNECT ELECTRICITY CABLE BEFORE PROCEEDING ALWAYS call this in. For some unknown reason Samsung on most models doesn't have an option to turn that off.

You have choices to make here. Call it in and confirm then decide if the set is going back as its design doesn't work for you. I'm not sure on your truck but mine has relays. If you do have a relay getting hot then you need to check all your wiring from the headlights back. Check the switch also. Hint: there’s a saying in the electronics world that goes something like this: *“Don’t make it precise, make it adjustable!”*