LED light bulbs

Bigmoney2

I've just put led, candle, dimmable bulbs in my light fitting, and find they make a slight noise. Its sort of a high pitched whine, not that loud, but noticeable. Is this normal?

MX5huggy

No, is it the bulbs making the noise or the switch which I presume is a dimmer switch?

Bigmoney2

Its the bulbs, the light fitting has 3 arms, and I replaced all the bulbs at once.

Bigmoney2

Its the bulbs, the light fitting has 3 arms, and I replaced all the bulbs at once. They are B22 candle bulbs with a bayonet fitting, and are a bit bigger (taller) than the previous halogen ones.

JustAnotherSaver

Ours made a noise
We'd put them in a light unit that turned out they were no good for (one of those touch lights with 3 settings).

Wasn't long before it started smoking.

Thankfully we were able to just say they started smoking & not that we used incorrect bulbs & we got an exchange.

So i put some 'normal' bulbs in there. Could've bought dimmer ones i suppose & tried that but didn't want to take the chance.

TheCyclingProgrammer

Normal or dimmer switch? If the former, faulty or poor quality bulbs, if the latter, then incompatible dimmer probably.

Bigmoney2

Yes it's a dimmer switch, and the bulbs are marked as dimmable.

MX5huggy

Unfortunately it needs to be the right sort of dimmer Google led compatible dimmers.

ColinFishwick

Yeah you need a special dimmer for led bulbs I had mine replaced and I get no noises, had mine 3 years now. Mine was mde by Varilightyou can get different designs too