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LED bulbs glow brightly and won't turn off (Varilight IR dimmer switch).
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<blockquote data-quote="Richard-the-Ninth" data-source="post: 474806" data-attributes="member: 23472"><p>You have answered your own question, you have not got enough load for the dimmer to be able to operate correctly.</p><p></p><p>Dimmers have a maximum and minimum load. It would appear that your 3 lamps are not enough to correctly operate your dimmer, you have shown this by the fact the dimmer does work with 6 lamps</p><p></p><p>To "cure" your problem you need to give the dimmer more load, which you can do by...........adding more lamps, you could add a "dummy load" but this would be a resistor which would just give off heat, which would then need dissipating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard-the-Ninth, post: 474806, member: 23472"] You have answered your own question, you have not got enough load for the dimmer to be able to operate correctly. Dimmers have a maximum and minimum load. It would appear that your 3 lamps are not enough to correctly operate your dimmer, you have shown this by the fact the dimmer does work with 6 lamps To "cure" your problem you need to give the dimmer more load, which you can do by...........adding more lamps, you could add a "dummy load" but this would be a resistor which would just give off heat, which would then need dissipating. [/QUOTE]
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