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Hi all, perhaps below is obvious, any thoughts most welcome
I had a an electrician fit 4 x 12v halogen ceiling lights a year ago in one room , all bulbs still work, all had separate transformer - kit supplied and fitted by electrician including a dimmer (works but noisy) . No issues until...
About 10 weeks ago I changed the white plastic dimmer he had fitted for a brass one (oops! and as I know not to much it probably was not the right type ?? to use with the above setup - still noisy.)
Anyway all did work, no problems but about 4 weeks later one of the lights in the room kept fading off after a few seconds or few minutes or not going back on. I swapped the bulb of course for another in the same room/ the fading bulb had no issues at all in another socket. The intermittent problems persisted.
I bought a new transformer for that fitting in question, fitted, and the intermittent issue disappeared for 2 weeks. It is back again.
I have now removed the brass dimmer (assumed was the culprit) - and fitted a simple one gang switch. All worked but after a day the intermittent fault occurs. Could the problem (a) be the wrong dimmer and (b) have I trashed the new transformer by having the brass dimmer in place for the last few weeks? Any suggestions most helpful - I was starting to guess there must be a rat up eating my cables
Hi all, perhaps below is obvious, any thoughts most welcome
I had a an electrician fit 4 x 12v halogen ceiling lights a year ago in one room , all bulbs still work, all had separate transformer - kit supplied and fitted by electrician including a dimmer (works but noisy) . No issues until...
About 10 weeks ago I changed the white plastic dimmer he had fitted for a brass one (oops! and as I know not to much it probably was not the right type ?? to use with the above setup - still noisy.)
Anyway all did work, no problems but about 4 weeks later one of the lights in the room kept fading off after a few seconds or few minutes or not going back on. I swapped the bulb of course for another in the same room/ the fading bulb had no issues at all in another socket. The intermittent problems persisted.
I bought a new transformer for that fitting in question, fitted, and the intermittent issue disappeared for 2 weeks. It is back again.
I have now removed the brass dimmer (assumed was the culprit) - and fitted a simple one gang switch. All worked but after a day the intermittent fault occurs. Could the problem (a) be the wrong dimmer and (b) have I trashed the new transformer by having the brass dimmer in place for the last few weeks? Any suggestions most helpful - I was starting to guess there must be a rat up eating my cables