Wab
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Hi All,
I bought a really interesting product from the british company Elkay **broken link removed**
It's a configurable dimmer which can simulate sunrise/sunset at a specific moment and dim the light from 10 min to 4 hours.
I was really excited by the product and I have been really disappointed when I bought it and realise it do not work with low consumption light or LED(recommended for incandescent light bulb up to 400W). I wanted actually to use it with a 19 W dimmable LED ( **broken link removed** ).
It appears that I have 2 problems:
1) the switch let a little bit of electricity throught the circuit when turned off in order to keep the screen on which is more than enought to turn on the light at 50%.
2) the dimming scale of the switch is not synchronized with the bulb. in other words, the 0% of the switch is the 50% of the bulb and the 50% of the switch is the 100% of the bulb.
I have opened the switch and I will post some pictures of the circuits.
It seems doable to me to modify it to make it compatible with my LED bulb. what do you think?
Thanks
Wab
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it seems to be a triac
I bought a really interesting product from the british company Elkay **broken link removed**
It's a configurable dimmer which can simulate sunrise/sunset at a specific moment and dim the light from 10 min to 4 hours.
I was really excited by the product and I have been really disappointed when I bought it and realise it do not work with low consumption light or LED(recommended for incandescent light bulb up to 400W). I wanted actually to use it with a 19 W dimmable LED ( **broken link removed** ).
It appears that I have 2 problems:
1) the switch let a little bit of electricity throught the circuit when turned off in order to keep the screen on which is more than enought to turn on the light at 50%.
2) the dimming scale of the switch is not synchronized with the bulb. in other words, the 0% of the switch is the 50% of the bulb and the 50% of the switch is the 100% of the bulb.
I have opened the switch and I will post some pictures of the circuits.
It seems doable to me to modify it to make it compatible with my LED bulb. what do you think?
Thanks
Wab
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it seems to be a triac