lights gone again

trailingspouse

Whoa there.

1) The light fitting was put in after the re-wire - we're renovating the whole house, so he put in a cheap single pendant bulb at our request, which we then changed to the fancy-pants chandelier when the room was finished.

2) The lecky charged me for changing the dimmer the first time it happened, but has made no charge this time as he is indeed a bit baffled by why it's happening. As I said, we'll change it to halogens and see how it goes.

3) We would prefer not to use LED's as the compatible dimmers are more expensive - if the halogens work with the new dimmer that he's going to fit next week, we'll be happy with that.

brightontraveller

trailingspouse wrote: »

Whoa there.

1) The light fitting was put in after the re-wire - we're renovating the whole house, so he put in a cheap single pendant bulb at our request, which we then changed to the fancy-pants chandelier when the room was finished.

2) The lecky charged me for changing the dimmer the first time it happened, but has made no charge this time as he is indeed a bit baffled by why it's happening. As I said, we'll change it to halogens and see how it goes.

3) We would prefer not to use LED's as the compatible dimmers are more expensive - if the halogens work with the new dimmer that he's going to fit next week, we'll be happy with that.

lol and you wondder why it dont work

sparky260500

trailingspouse wrote: »

Whoa there.

1) The light fitting was put in after the re-wire - we're renovating the whole house, so he put in a cheap single pendant bulb at our request, which we then changed to the fancy-pants chandelier when the room was finished.

2) The lecky charged me for changing the dimmer the first time it happened, but has made no charge this time as he is indeed a bit baffled by why it's happening. As I said, we'll change it to halogens and see how it goes.

3) We would prefer not to use LED's as the compatible dimmers are more expensive - if the halogens work with the new dimmer that he's going to fit next week, we'll be happy with that.

keep us posted will be interested to see how you go on.

trailingspouse

Brightontraveller - you're very quick to lol.

But is it helpful? I do 'wondder why it dont work (sic)' - could you tell me?

Many thanks to everyone who had something constructive to say.

I have full confidence in my electrician, but the best of people can be faced with a puzzle. And it takes a big man to admit it. He knows I'm not an electrician, but he also knows I'm not stupid. If he was pulling the wool I would have spotted it the first day he walked through the door.

We've changed to halogen, and he'll be here on Monday to do a couple of other jobs and re-fit the dimmer. Will let you know if it doesn't work.

brightontraveller

trailingspouse wrote: »

He's suggested that we replace all the bulbs with halogen ones, then we'll wait and see if it happens again. If it does, then we move on to a closer inspection of the light fitting itself.
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Interesting doesn’t bother to test it first second or third time stick something different in if that doesn’t blow, burn etc go back to a dimmer again if it does have a look at the light ? Guess that sounds professional to you
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trailingspouse wrote: »

Brightontraveller - you're very quick to lol.

But is it helpful? I do 'wondder why it dont work (sic)' - could you tell me?

I’d did give you a link at start which tells you ? Btw covers what happens if you use halogens too maybe get them to read it ?

I can say 100% correct selection of lamp and dimmers solves your problem every time…? Incorrect selection doesn’t , In situation as described only reason to replace dimmer that often first the materials purchased are sub standard or they don’t understand how to correctly select dimmer and lamps ? and anything else well they should have tested after dimmer blows not replace replace replace,,,,

elstimpo

baldelectrician wrote: »

Buy branded lamps
Use a brand such as Osram, Philiips, Sylvanina

A better option is to change the lamps to LED dimmable ones ( branded, of course) and change the dimmer to one compatible with the LED lamps you have just installed

Why, when there are far better products from other specialist companies out there? None of the companies you have listed have come up with CRI in the high 90's whilst others have.

Big brand names like the ones you have mentioned are better than the vast majority of stuff out there (large % of the market is cheap tat), but there are far better companies and products out there.