Thread: Light dimmer switch; can failure just cause lack of bright lights?
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Bogus wrote:

Dimmer switches are no more than
rheostats. If carbon were to build up on
part of the switch, it may be sufficient
to affect voltage. Might cause a voltage
drop.

That information is bogus. Dimmer switches are solid state devices that
chop of part of the AC sine wave. I suppose they could fail but I have
one in a homemade electric blanket control that has been working for 25
years.


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