Some push-on knobs have a springy plate on the flat bit to help retain the knob on the shaft, you may have lost it.
Changing LED light's switch to a dimmer
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Why isn't the dimmer attached to the plate it was supplied with?
A blob of bluetack works as well, pushed into the socket of the knob.
You really need a deeper back box for that dimmer.
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I just pushed it through the hole, should I attach it better?
I can't find 'em, I'll get them at electric shop
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These come off, dimmer goes through the faceplate and you do them up again.
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And after all that, just watched Big Clive saying we should not be using wall plate dimmers, as they damage the bulbs.
As we went to quartz halogen lamps, the wall dimmer became obsolete. The quartz lamp relies on the quartz being hot enough so the tungsten will not stick to the quartz but return to the tungsten filament, so all my dimmers were removed as we were forced to move to quartz, then compact fluorescent which also could not dim with normally wall plate, so by time the LED bulb appeared my dimming switches were long gone.
The old tungsten lamp went reddish as dimmed giving an ambulance, to get this with LED, it all needs building into the lamp, we can get "Smart" LED lamps which dim, colour temperature change, and also colour change, never worked out why we call them smart, they just have telemetry, but that telemetry allows other devices like Nest and Alexis to also control them, I have personally only tried to turn the lights on/off with voice commands, but there is a range of options
with all these options why does anyone want to return to using an obsolete wall dimmer?
As we went to quartz halogen lamps, the wall dimmer became obsolete. The quartz lamp relies on the quartz being hot enough so the tungsten will not stick to the quartz but return to the tungsten filament, so all my dimmers were removed as we were forced to move to quartz, then compact fluorescent which also could not dim with normally wall plate, so by time the LED bulb appeared my dimming switches were long gone.
The old tungsten lamp went reddish as dimmed giving an ambulance, to get this with LED, it all needs building into the lamp, we can get "Smart" LED lamps which dim, colour temperature change, and also colour change, never worked out why we call them smart, they just have telemetry, but that telemetry allows other devices like Nest and Alexis to also control them, I have personally only tried to turn the lights on/off with voice commands, but there is a range of options
If the room has 6 lamps on one switch then a dimmer works out a lot cheaper than 6 smart LED lamps.
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I would agree, however only if they work, for a reasonable time.
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