Dimmer toggle switches and Arc Fault breakers

[DelightedInYahweh]

I did a search and did not come up with much in the forum on this subject.

Was wondering if anyone has run in to a situation with Dimmer toggle switches causing arc fault breakers to trip?

Thanks in Advance.

 

[Sierrasparky]

If you are having problems with them there has been concern about nuisance tripping with dimmed loads. There was a post that claimed max dimmed load at 1000 watts. I had heard that Lutron had confirmed this.
Pure conjecture but there have been complaints.
Toggle dimmers will use similar dimming circuits as slides. Some brands are different.

 

[DelightedInYahweh]

Thanks

 

[Sierrasparky]

Hope it helped.

 

[DelightedInYahweh]

I believe it will. There are multiple rooms within a new home I finished up about six weeks ago in which the AFCI's are nuisance tripping. I had absolutely no issues the entire time I was in the home trimming it out. Checked all the routine areas where problems usually exist. Left the lights on for about 45 minutes while I was in the home doing some other tid bits and of course no issues. I left and started to go through the details of each circuit in my head. That is when I flagged the dimmers as possible culprits.

Only thing is the 1000w limit. I will have to recheck but not many if any of the rooms will even come close to this amount. Two rooms in particular are LED, but one of those rooms I will have to do the calculations to see exactly how much wattage is available on that particular circuit.

I'll dig a bit, planned on removing the dimmers in a couple of the rooms and replacing them with standard toggles and seeing what comes of it. Guess we'll see.

Thanks again