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On 12/02/2020 13:48, wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 February 2020 11:27:36 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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nothing long term about it, the PSU R experiences gross overload and smokes in seconds.

Indeed.
When LED bulbs finally became affordable I replaced 10 x 50W halogen
bulbs originally configured split over 2 x dimmer switches with
"dimmable" LED bulbs but all wired as a single circuit to keep the load up.

Switched them on and the bulb closest to the dimmer blew, switched it
off and thought it might just have been a duff bulb as all the rest were
fine so took it out and switched them back on and the next (now the
closest) bulb blew.

Replaced dimmer with a regular light switch after that and use a small
table lamp for softer lighting.