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Success!! :D I wired it up and it works! I don't know why the other dimmers didn't work but this one is a different brand from the other ones, so they were probably duff ones or I broke them. Thank you all for your help, I now know lots of things about dimmers, circuits and...

I'm going to wire this dimmer in in the morning, and I'm going to make damn sure that the brown goes in the com and the blue with brown sleeve goes in L1, and it should just work, right? could there be an issue with using halogens? If so , why does the old dimmer work? could there be an...

We did briefly put an energy saver on there some time ago :oops: I think that's why it doesn't dim any more. There all dimable halogen now.

strange thing is, the old dimmer works. It's on there now. It's just that one of the dimmers doesn't dim and the plastic has broken on the knobs. The old dimmer has been there for a while and we've had some pretty strange behaviour from it. Could it have been wired wrong all this time...

It's only a cheap multi meter. It's a Sinometer M-830B There doesn't appear to be any continuity mode, The instructions are pretty useless.

Yes these ones are push on and off. I've tried both and turning them both ways as well. :cry: There was no other wires in there apart from earth.

The old switch was working apart from one of the dimmers didn't dim but it did switch on. Apart from that, just the knobs were broken. There's no transformers.

I didn't note down were each cable went but I remember the browns were in the ~ hole and the blue in the L1. The range of the one I just got is 40 -400 W I have 5 golfball screw ins in one rose in one room and a standard single light bulb socket in the other. The lowest setting on the...

Sorry, two are brown and two are blue with brown sleeves. I put the brown ones in the comm holes and the blue with brown sleeeves in the L1 holes.

I'm replacing my one way double dimmer switch for two adjoining rooms. In the back box, there are four wires, not including earth wires. Two of the wires are brown and two are brown with blue sleeves. I assume that the ones with sleeves are switched lives. I bought A new double dimmer and...