Hi, need some advice on what I think is a faulty lightswitch/wiring.
In our dining room, there is a 3 gang dimmer switch on the wall. Each switch controls the following:
1. A few downlights. This works fine.
2. Another 2 downlights PLUS lighting built into some wall-mounted shelving. The lights coming on and going off is unpredictable. Sometimes they come on and sometimes they won’t go off.
3. 3 x ceiling regular bayonet type lights. As we’ve only recently moved in I hadn’t got around using these yet but yesterday I tried a bulb and it seems to work fine.
I’m not an electrician but I suspect that the lighting in the shelving doesn’t like being connected to a dimmer switch. It doesn’t dim and it flashes when being turned on an off.
Is there any reason why I couldn’t just replace the dimmer switch with a normal off/on switch?
Many thanks
In our dining room, there is a 3 gang dimmer switch on the wall. Each switch controls the following:
1. A few downlights. This works fine.
2. Another 2 downlights PLUS lighting built into some wall-mounted shelving. The lights coming on and going off is unpredictable. Sometimes they come on and sometimes they won’t go off.
3. 3 x ceiling regular bayonet type lights. As we’ve only recently moved in I hadn’t got around using these yet but yesterday I tried a bulb and it seems to work fine.
I’m not an electrician but I suspect that the lighting in the shelving doesn’t like being connected to a dimmer switch. It doesn’t dim and it flashes when being turned on an off.
Is there any reason why I couldn’t just replace the dimmer switch with a normal off/on switch?
Many thanks