"Joseph Meehan" wrote in message
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Noozer wrote:
I have a lamp dimmer that I'm hoping that I can use for a project.
Before I go and start a fire or suffer a meltdown I thought it best
to ask for feedback...

Three likely issues:

1. Total wattage of the lamps can not go over the rated capacity of the
dimmer.

Dimmer is rated for 300 watts. Bulbs are 120v 25 watt halogens.

2. The dimmer can not be used on a transformer supplied circuit. Are
these low voltage lamps?

Actually these dimmers were originally meant to dim a pair of 12v halogens.
They were purchase as a set from IKEA. The dimmer is a 120v model and the
transformer plugged into it.

3. The connection technique sounds very iffy to me. It reminds me of what
I see on low voltage applications and you can't use the dimmer on the low
voltage application.

The connections work... After some sleep I decided just to put a line cord
on the lamp and plug it into the dimmer as it was meant to be in the first
place. It would take a lot more modding than I originally anticipated to use
it as inline with the lamp.