Two way switch - help before wife kills me

[Kilm]

So have a two way switch thing in my kitchen extension. One is a dimmer but with these new LED lightbulbs, it causes pulsing and flickering.

"I know, I'll change it to a standard switch."

Ha.

The lights work, they just can't be turned off.

See attached image - I can't take the other switch out to check how it's rigged as it'll wreck the tiling.

Wife is trying to bake for a party tomorrow by headtorch.

Help appreciated.

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• Kilm
• 12 Apr 2014
• 1

 

[DaftPunk]

Red and yellow the wrong way round.

 

[Kilm]

As I stood, staring at this switch with my chin in my hand, my wife made the smartarse comment of: "You look like you're at NASA and you're trying to send that ****er into space."

Now I shall mock her.

 

[AndyPRK]

Or yellow and blue wrong

 

[Kilm]

Or yellow and blue wrong

........... Bugger.

Will anything blow up if I get it the wrong way round?

On which note, the picture is sideways on, so yellow is at the top. Although I'm sure everyone knew that. Bar me.

 

[AndyPRK]

Nah you wont blow anything up.

Yeah we can see its sideways

 

[Kilm]

Fixed. Red and yellow wrong way round.

I love coming here with my special moments. You guys are superb.

Cheers!

 

[Fordy81]

So have a two way switch thing in my kitchen extension. One is a dimmer but with these new LED lightbulbs, it causes pulsing and flickering.

If you want to keep a dimmer you need to get a trailing edge dimmer. From memory they work for up to 50w or 10 lamps, with a minimum on 10w. That will stop the flickering of the lights.

 

[Taylortwocities]

If you want to keep a dimmer you need to get a trailing edge dimmer. From memory they work for up to 50w or 10 lamps, with a minimum on 10w. That will stop the flickering of the lights.

Well, its a low-watt dimmer you need, not a trailing edge dimmer per se.
Standadr dimmers need a load of at least 40watts to work properly. Also the LEDs need to be dimmer able.
Something like THESE