New Dimmer

[Charlie]

Today's newspaper had an ad for light dimmers that claim to work with all types of lamps.

Here's a piece from their web site.

Dimming saves energy while setting the right light level to improve mood and ambiance. Screw-in compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and screw-in light emitting diode bulbs (LEDs) are a great energy-saving alternative to incandescent or halogen light sources; however, dimming them may be difficult. Lutron's new CFL.LED (C.LT) Dimmers with HEDT Technology help alleviate your CFL and LED dimming challenges.

The site itself is at

Has any one had the chance to try one? Are they showing up in the B B stores? Ads are one thing, but personal experience is more important.

I have no conection with Lutron except for a couple of old dimmers that have been in service for a long time

Charlie

[Joe]

Lutron is a major manufacturer of dimmers and such, so odds are their products will work as advertised. Since a lot of tricky engineering (and possibly manufacturing) went into the products, expect the price to be a bit rather higher than most.

Joe

[IGot2P]

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$30 for the wall mount and $13 for the inline model at

on Lowes site.

Don

[hrhofmann]

I didn't see anywhere where they claimed that the dimmer could be used with ordinary (non-dimmable rated) CFLs. They just said that lamps could be dimmed closer to zero and that they would have less flicker. I think if they could be used with ordinary CFLs they would have made that a big advertising issue. I know I would if it were my product.

[Charlie]

Thanks, Don. I looked at Lowes before but those didn't show up on my search. I also noticed no reviews yet. I'll wait and see. I don't like being first on a new device. The prices aren't that bad if all the claims are true. We have a hanging lamp on a dimmer that we use as a night light when we go out and I don't know how long my stock of incandescents will last.

Charlie

[Charlie]

I didn't see anywhere where they claimed that the dimmer could be used with ordinary (non-dimmable rated) CFLs. They just said that lamps could be dimmed closer to zero and that they would have less flicker. I think if they could be used with ordinary CFLs they would have made that a big advertising issue. I know I would if it were my product.

Web site gives a list of Lutron approve lamps. Must be marked "dimmable".

Charlie

[hrhofmann]

Oh Yeah, I looked more closely and saw that that they do say "dimmable" a couple of places, but noticeably not on the pages where they show "approved" lamps.