Help!!!!! Dimmer Problems

[ads1980]

Hi All,

I need your help. We have recently had a summer house built with the electrics installed. All the wires for the lights and sockets run round the inside of the summer house inside those plastic white concealers (sorry, dont know their proper names) We have decided to fit a dimmer switch which I thought would be straight forward. I unscrewed the exsisting light fitting and it had 2 brown wires going into it. The 2 blue wires were connected into a seperate block that goes no where and the 2 earth wires both go into the earth terminal in the light switch wall mounting. I dont know which ones to connect to which terminals in the dimmer switch. I have a live terminal marked as C and a Nuetral terminal marked as L1. I did try connecting one brown wire into L1 and one to C. The light did work but I could not dim it? Did I havew them connected the wrong way round or do I need to do something else?

Any help would be great!

Thanks

 

[Lectrician]

The two browns to the C and L1 should work, either way around.

What type of light is it? What wattage?

 

[ads1980]

It is a chandelier style light with 5 stems on it with 60w light bulbs in it. Does this help?

Thanks for your reply by the way

 

[EdwardCurrent]

Hello.

What is the power 'rating' of the dimmer ?
What type of lamps do you have ? Filament ??

Regards
Ed

 

[flameport]

It is a chandelier style light with 5 stems on it with 60w light bulbs in it.

300 watts of lighting.

What is the rating of the dimmer? Many are only 250W, in which case the dimmer has probably been damaged.