Thursday night one of 4 50W GU10 bulbs blew. Very loud bang, glass fell out of the bulb(!) and tripped lighting circuit fuse at the fuse box.
Swapped bulb out for a new one (again 50W GU10), switched fuse back on at the fuse box, all lights are on.
Went to press the dimmer switch to turn them off, nothing happened.
Pressing and holding the dimmer switch again didn't dim the bulbs.
Therefore seems that there is a fault with the dimmer switch (assume it's blown?), and is therefore keeping the lights on (does this make sense - I would have thought the lights wouldn't switch on if the dimmer was broken)
Here's a photo of the lighting switches - the rightmost one is the dimmer switch (it's a recessed push button type - press it to turn lights on / off or press and hold to dim them up, then down, then up and so on)
As I didn't really fancy having lights on all night, I turned the lights off at the fuse box again and then swapped the blue + brown wires from a working light switch that ran to a single ceiling bulb fitting with the blue + brown wires from the dimmer. I removed the bulb from the single ceiling fitting, and then turned on the lights at the fuse box. All yellow / green wires go to a single point in the back of the faceplate (for earthing I assume).
Now I can at least switch my GU10 lights on and off (and have a ceiling light that I don't use as otherwise it'd always be on).
I think my next step is to therefore get a replacement dimmer switch - but the bit I'm unsure about is why the lights would remain on and the dimmer not work. Is it the dimmer switch that's the problem or do I need to get something else checked first?
Any advice much appreciated - apologies for the late night rambling, having just done the above work myself.
Swapped bulb out for a new one (again 50W GU10), switched fuse back on at the fuse box, all lights are on.
Went to press the dimmer switch to turn them off, nothing happened.
Pressing and holding the dimmer switch again didn't dim the bulbs.
Therefore seems that there is a fault with the dimmer switch (assume it's blown?), and is therefore keeping the lights on (does this make sense - I would have thought the lights wouldn't switch on if the dimmer was broken)
Here's a photo of the lighting switches - the rightmost one is the dimmer switch (it's a recessed push button type - press it to turn lights on / off or press and hold to dim them up, then down, then up and so on)
As I didn't really fancy having lights on all night, I turned the lights off at the fuse box again and then swapped the blue + brown wires from a working light switch that ran to a single ceiling bulb fitting with the blue + brown wires from the dimmer. I removed the bulb from the single ceiling fitting, and then turned on the lights at the fuse box. All yellow / green wires go to a single point in the back of the faceplate (for earthing I assume).
Now I can at least switch my GU10 lights on and off (and have a ceiling light that I don't use as otherwise it'd always be on).
I think my next step is to therefore get a replacement dimmer switch - but the bit I'm unsure about is why the lights would remain on and the dimmer not work. Is it the dimmer switch that's the problem or do I need to get something else checked first?
Any advice much appreciated - apologies for the late night rambling, having just done the above work myself.