Go for the dimmer, they make them to handle more than 600W. Leviton has
2000W dimmers for example.

I don't think they are still available, but you use to be able to buy
point source diodes that when in under the bulb. I believe they are no
longer available because they exposed the threads on the side of the light.
However I may be wrong and maybe you could find some of them, they dim 50%
one lamp at a time.

--
Joseph E. Meehan

26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math


"amder" wrote in message
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I have a 6 light bulb bathroom fixture installed.
At present all bulbs are of course wired in parallel to the line.
I have a bunch of 60W speciality expensive bulbs I would like to use,
but only want to run them at 30W. Dimmer won't work here because I
have 2 fixtures like this on the same dimmer and this would be 600W,
much greater than its rating.

I can rewire the fixture so that pairs of bulbs are in series, thus
burning my 60W bulbs at 30W.

Question is that when I rewire them in series, one of the bulbs I'll
call number 1 will be wired to the line, and the ouput of bulb number
1 will be connected to the next bulb number 2's center. Thus number
1's base which is normally neutral/ground when in parallel, will now
be at half voltage because it is feeding bulb 2 and not going to the
neutral.

Is this a code violation or safety concern ???