Yes, usually trailing edge works best with LED lights.
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Is the knob broken? Show us a photo of the back of it.
Changing LED light's switch to a dimmer
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Is the knob broken? Show us a photo of the back of it.
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Which is a completely different design and purpose of a switch. The original is clearly an intermediate switch, designed to go in the strappers of a two way circuit, to convert it to a three or more way switched system. Who ever, has simply repurposed it as a one way switch.
So simply put, shall I set it as a trailing edge and put red to C black to L1 or just leave with original switch?
Sorry, not up on electrics, are you saying it's OK to wire as I suggested above or not?
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The knob and the spindle both look fine. It should be a case of simply lining up the flat bit of the knob with the flat bit of the spindle and pushing.
There’s a City and Guilds qualification for knob installation!That might prove tricky and run to 30 pages
Our long term member Isambard will be along shortly - he's good with tricky problems.
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If you look (closely in pix) at settings for trailing edge I set switch 2 to OFF position. I left switch 1 to ON , is this correct?
The cable is thick do cut it so isn't doubled over and put into the terminals. The cables look a bit crunched up behind switch, not sure if this is a problem tried to push wires back into wall.
Result- it works (if a little delayed) . Thxs
The cable is thick do cut it so isn't doubled over and put into the terminals. The cables look a bit crunched up behind switch, not sure if this is a problem tried to push wires back into wall.
Result- it works (if a little delayed) . Thxs
Oh, they do, they reduce the flicker of lights, and save you money by making the definition of the lights sharper, so less power is needed.
Correct is what ever works, dimmable LED's vary in what they expect from a dimmer, so just use what ever setting works best, without the occasional flicker.
Double over or not, it makes no difference, all that matter is - is the copper firmly clamped.
You really need a deeper back box for that dimmer.
There's some sort of open square spacer you can get, isn't there, to give more space.
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