LEDs don't like dimmers.

[seasickstevie]

Just replaced a load of halogen GU10s with LEDs in a restaurant.
Says on the (LED) box "Not for dimming"
Needles to say, some were fed by a dimmer. So I thought . . . well I'll just make sure the dimmer's fully turned up, so as not actually dimming.

After a few minutes they started to flicker.
Within fifteen minutes we were in the dark. All the lamps (fortunately only five) fed by the dimmer had failed.

Won't do that again.


ps: Edited into English (it was very late)

 

[OwainDIYer]

You're lucky.

Could have taken the dimmer with them

 

[bernardgreen]

Very lucky

a dimmer diner

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Just installed a load of dimmers in a restaurant.
Says on the box "Not for dimming"

How odd.

What were the dimmers in the box for, if not for dimming?

 

[seasickstevie]

Thanks Sheds.
That'll teach me not to use 'Preview'

(Edited now to make sense)

 

[ban-all-sheds]