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Default Fitting a dimmer switch to a floor lamp - No Earth

wrote:

Hi,

we have a floor lamp that makes the room far too bright when on, and
leaves the room too dark when off. So, we asked our unreliable
handyman to fit a dimmer switch, which he did, a normal click on/off
dimmer in a plastic housing, by cutting the main cord, and putting it
inbetween the plug and lamp.

He left the job muttering something about "it buzzes because there is
no earth". The thing did buzz, and the lamp flickered as well, and
eventually after a week or so, there was a reasonbly loud bang, and the
lamp stopped working.

How do I do this properly without the above problems?

Many thanks
Colin

Earth is irrelevant.

Apart frim safety.

He fitted a crap dimmer thats all.

SOME onterference may be larger without an eath, but the buzzing is just
a very crap dimmer.