Soft start dimmer

[RF Lighting]

Hello all. Having a bit of a problem. I have a customer with 4no. twin arm wall lights with 60W SES golf ball lamps in each lampholder. Every time a lamp fails it's taking the dimmer out too for some reason. It's happened twice in three days now. The last dimmer was a 600W Hamilton dimmer.

Obviously this is not a good situation. I was thinking a soft start dimmer should help reduce or stop this happening in future but I can't find one rated high enough.

It needs to fit a 1 gang 25mm flush box and be in polished chrome or be a standard dimmer module to fit the existing plate.

Does such a thing exist? I've looked for a dimmable LED of the same size and brightness to reduce the load but also drawing a blank on this.

Any help much appreciated.

 

[deadshort]

Hi I would advise the customer to go the led route, I would think after a few replacement dimmers, that won't be difficult !

Regards,

DS

 

[JohnW2]

I was thinking a soft start dimmer should help reduce or stop this happening in future ....

Do you have experience of that approach working? I ask because it sounds rather like 'wishful thinking' to me - even the 'slow start' presumably assumes that the load is of a 'reasonable' impedance. If it falls to near-zero as a lamp fails, potentially considerable (perhaps 'damaging') currents are still likely to flow, transiently, aren't they?

Kind Regards, John

 

[deadshort]

I have to say, that I have found the MK 'intelligent ' dimmers are very reliable and are resilient to lamps blowing and short duration overloads and bounce back with no problems. However, I don't think they make a 600W PC finish which is what RF requires.


Regards,

DS

 

[mfarrow]

These are probably the best drivers I've seen for LED dimming if the customer is willing to pay for it.

http://eldoledstore.com/pages/eldoled-in-action