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llewop
Can anybody tell me can you get an intermediate dimmer switch. I cannot find anybody that sells them.
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Why does it have to be the intermediate switch need to be dimming? Can't either of the other switch locations carry the dimmer.
The only other way of course is re-wiring the connection between the switches to making your existing intermediate a two way switch. Not ideal if your cables are buried in plaster.
To answer question. Never heard of such a product. Probably not much market for one.
Although I would like to be proved wrong.
The only other way of course is re-wiring the connection between the switches to making your existing intermediate a two way switch. Not ideal if your cables are buried in plaster.
To answer question. Never heard of such a product. Probably not much market for one.
Although I would like to be proved wrong.
You could use a 2 way dimmer wired up as dim only (L1 and L2 connected) in a grid box with a normal intermediate switch next to it. Hoewever this is only possible if the com wire goes through the box of the intermediate switch.
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llewop
Thanks for your help. I recently asked an electrical supplier and he also had never heard of an intermediate dimmer switch. I will just leave it as is an normal switch.
For years I`ve been hoping to find a dimming, brass, intermediate pull switch.
Well that`s what I tell suppliers, it stumps them sometimes.
I must admit I like the idea of the one way dimmer used on the com connections adjacent to the intermediate.- wish I`d have thought of that
Well that`s what I tell suppliers, it stumps them sometimes.
I must admit I like the idea of the one way dimmer used on the com connections adjacent to the intermediate.- wish I`d have thought of that
If you think about it, an intermediate dimmer isn't all that easy to make. You have two wires running through it, either direct or crossed over, and either one of them could be carrying the current. 
Do you put two dimmers in there?
The logical solution is to do as plugwash suggests and put a single dimmer in the common wire but in the same box. You now have a six terminal device and you need all three cores of both cables to make it work. You couldn't use it to replace an existing intermediate switch unless the common wire was in the box already.
Do you put two dimmers in there? The logical solution is to do as plugwash suggests and put a single dimmer in the common wire but in the same box. You now have a six terminal device and you need all three cores of both cables to make it work. You couldn't use it to replace an existing intermediate switch unless the common wire was in the box already.
llewop this is the perfect colution for you. Take or leave.
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