SceneryDriver
Senior Member
- Location
- NJ
- Occupation
- Electrical and Automation Designer
All,
Let me preface this by stating that while I do LOTS of LED lighting, and my main day-to-day is industrial controls, I do next to nothing with LED A19-style lamps that are line-voltage dimmed. Like... zilch.
With that said, what can people recommend for a single-way dimmer to control (3) 60W-equivalant LED lamps in a ceiling fixture? Kicker is, it's an existing installation and of course the original installer didn't include a neutral at the switch box (wired in 14-2 AC as a switch loop). Adding the noodle isn't a possibility (AC was run through brick before stucco was applied).
I tried a Lutron TGCL-153-PH-WH dimmer the client supplied, and got nowhere. It's supposed to be a 1-way / 3-way dimmer depending on how it's hooked up, but all I ever got it to do was toggle on and off - no dimming. It may have been a dodgy dimmer however, as I'm pretty sure the package was open, and I'm pretty sure that there were instructions missing. Is Lutron so low-rent these days as to make you look up the hookup instructions using Google?
I remember the good ol' days of incandescent dimming and two-wire dimmers. I realize that dimming (dimmable) LEDs is more complicated, but what are folks using these days? I'd love to pick whatever it is up at Home Depot this afternoon, so I can swing by the client on the way home and make them happy.
Thanks,
SceneryDriver
Let me preface this by stating that while I do LOTS of LED lighting, and my main day-to-day is industrial controls, I do next to nothing with LED A19-style lamps that are line-voltage dimmed. Like... zilch.
With that said, what can people recommend for a single-way dimmer to control (3) 60W-equivalant LED lamps in a ceiling fixture? Kicker is, it's an existing installation and of course the original installer didn't include a neutral at the switch box (wired in 14-2 AC as a switch loop). Adding the noodle isn't a possibility (AC was run through brick before stucco was applied).
I tried a Lutron TGCL-153-PH-WH dimmer the client supplied, and got nowhere. It's supposed to be a 1-way / 3-way dimmer depending on how it's hooked up, but all I ever got it to do was toggle on and off - no dimming. It may have been a dodgy dimmer however, as I'm pretty sure the package was open, and I'm pretty sure that there were instructions missing. Is Lutron so low-rent these days as to make you look up the hookup instructions using Google?
I remember the good ol' days of incandescent dimming and two-wire dimmers. I realize that dimming (dimmable) LEDs is more complicated, but what are folks using these days? I'd love to pick whatever it is up at Home Depot this afternoon, so I can swing by the client on the way home and make them happy.
Thanks,
SceneryDriver