I went to install a dimmer supplied by the home owner today. Lutron C-L decora type (cfl,led,incan) . It is a combo single pole 3 way type.
I turned the circuit off and replace the existing bad one with this new one. I wire it for 3 way and turned the circuit back on.
It controls a 3 bulb hanging fixture over a kitchen table. Check the switch, good, check the slide dimmer... dims but turns out there's two led bulbs and one incandescent a lamp in the fixture. The led's dimmed all the way but the incandescent lamp not all the way... I figure I'll play with the little fine adjustment on the dimmer, remove the cover and the dimmers smoking??? Turned off breaker, removed the dimmer, went through testing open bare travelers and point...
The incandescent was no longer working, swapped the working led to that socket, that socket is working.
Rehooked up the dimmer, It worked and dimmed (the two led's) but I didn't feel right leaving it, so I replaced it with a regular 3 way till I get a new dimmer.
Called lutron, I said what happened and asked if the dimmer might have burnt because the incandescent bulb went bad... they said yes that happens...... WHAT????
If a bulb burns out a dimmer starts to smoke and maybe catch on fire (would it catch on fire, or burn out internally and fail ??) Lutron is sending another dimmer out.
Has anyone experience dimmer failures because a bulb went bad???
Thanks
I turned the circuit off and replace the existing bad one with this new one. I wire it for 3 way and turned the circuit back on.
It controls a 3 bulb hanging fixture over a kitchen table. Check the switch, good, check the slide dimmer... dims but turns out there's two led bulbs and one incandescent a lamp in the fixture. The led's dimmed all the way but the incandescent lamp not all the way... I figure I'll play with the little fine adjustment on the dimmer, remove the cover and the dimmers smoking??? Turned off breaker, removed the dimmer, went through testing open bare travelers and point...
The incandescent was no longer working, swapped the working led to that socket, that socket is working.
Rehooked up the dimmer, It worked and dimmed (the two led's) but I didn't feel right leaving it, so I replaced it with a regular 3 way till I get a new dimmer.
Called lutron, I said what happened and asked if the dimmer might have burnt because the incandescent bulb went bad... they said yes that happens...... WHAT????
If a bulb burns out a dimmer starts to smoke and maybe catch on fire (would it catch on fire, or burn out internally and fail ??) Lutron is sending another dimmer out.
Has anyone experience dimmer failures because a bulb went bad???
Thanks
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