On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:31:48 -0700 (PDT), stan
wrote:

On Sep 21, 10:49Â*am, Van Chocstraw
wrote:
hr(bob) wrote:
On Sep 19, 7:59 pm, "Jon Danniken"
wrote:
Darro wrote:

And if anyone has an idea of why the switches no longer turn on the
lights, I'd be very interested in knowing that too.
It's because they are broken. Â*Buy new ones, and they should work.

Jon

Manually throw the breaker to the off position, then on, then off,
then on again and see what happens. Â*If no Â*light, you may have fried
the dimmer switch.

This would be my answer too.

Regarding this thread am sure the advice is good and well intentioned.
But IMO don't think the OP is sufficiently knowledgeable to absorb it
and/or act upon it; safely.
Starting with moving one of the switches on a live circuit, without
first checking and shutting off at least the circuit breaker for
'that' circuit.
When it comes to shutting off 'all' power in, say, a house. Not
necessarily essential but may be appropriate if there is a lot of
doubt or confusion and/or if the original wiring/ circuitry has been
messed about with, modified and/or obviuosly non standard circuits
have been added.


I've been changing switches on live circuits for something better than
40 years - not a shock yet, and only burned off one screw driver,
about 40 years back.