e57
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- San Francisco, CA
All of the dimmers mentioned all have different technologies and circuitry that dimm the load.
An Adriani and a Nova dimm the load in very different ways. The Nova has huge heat sinks, considered a commercial grade heavy duty dimmer. Crude circuit but resiliant construction. Adriani - crude triac circuit - lightly built 'inexpensive' construction.
Whereas some of the other dimmers are much more sofisticated electronic and newer circuit designs - and often cost more...
That said - mistakes like mixing load types, or even wattages of the same type without interfaces. Or not compansating for loads, derating - to include losses in transformers of cheap (I mean 'less expensive') cans.
While back I went to troubleshoot some othe companies install - found they put miles of track with electronic transformers on most heads - mixed with line voltage par lamps all on MLV dimmers. They apparently replaced them a bunch of times. Needed to run new 2 circuit track - seperate and add SW's and use the right dimmers for each type - of course more expensive dimmers... But if designed right up-front the customer would have less problems and not had to spend extra to fix poor design.
An Adriani and a Nova dimm the load in very different ways. The Nova has huge heat sinks, considered a commercial grade heavy duty dimmer. Crude circuit but resiliant construction. Adriani - crude triac circuit - lightly built 'inexpensive' construction.
Whereas some of the other dimmers are much more sofisticated electronic and newer circuit designs - and often cost more...
That said - mistakes like mixing load types, or even wattages of the same type without interfaces. Or not compansating for loads, derating - to include losses in transformers of cheap (I mean 'less expensive') cans.
While back I went to troubleshoot some othe companies install - found they put miles of track with electronic transformers on most heads - mixed with line voltage par lamps all on MLV dimmers. They apparently replaced them a bunch of times. Needed to run new 2 circuit track - seperate and add SW's and use the right dimmers for each type - of course more expensive dimmers... But if designed right up-front the customer would have less problems and not had to spend extra to fix poor design.