On Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:12:21 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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whisky-dave wrote:
That's what I couldn't understand when DP said when my dimmer blew I
should replace the traics as a DIY job, but if I did they'd blow
again within 5 mins of turning the lights back on again, I even said
I didn;t want to get in to a casuality loop. SO I decided to buy a
new dimmer of the correct type to dim LEDs rather than keep
repairing the one that doesnlt work. Aslso LEDs really only work on
DC.

As usual you've made half of that lot up.

No I haven;t, you just didn't understand the situation as usual.

I've understood perfectly well.

Then you got it plain wrong then.


I actually said that it's quite common for a dimmer to fail when a
tungsten bulb blows.

WTF !
Mine blew when I replaced two halgen bulbs with 2 LED versions, well didn;t blow so much as not work, flicker and not reach full brightness.

So likely nothing wrong with the dimmer. Thought everyone knew not all
mains LEDs can be dimmed.

So why didn't the dimmer dim the ghalagen bulbs when the LEDs were removed ?



worked very well, so I went and brought another 2 LEDs while they were
still on offer, put themn in and worked well as expected the only
downside was a delay in teh on time of about 1.5 seconds from switch on.

Good grief.

I do NOT have MCBs I have old style fuses 5 amp lighting circuit which
did not blow.

And they take even longer to cut off the supply than an MCB.

So what.

Not that it
makes any difference when a tungsten bulb shorts with a dimmer in circuit.

WHat has that got to do with it.

I have NEVER had tungstun bulbs in nthe kithcen, whenb I moved in in 1987
there was a florescent light, which I replaced with a 4 way halegon.
As teh halagens died I replaced them with LEDs.

Why are yuo goign on about tungsten bulbs and MCBs when I have nieher. ?