CFL Bulbs And Ceiling Fans

Sep 09, 2008 23 Replies

I don't have any dimmers installed in my home, so I can't. However, if current through an LED is varied, then the brightness varies roughly proportionately. That much I do know - I have done that a lot.

It is much more expensive and difficult to make a high efficiency LED lamp appear as a resistor load than otherwise, so that is why many/most LED lamps do not dim really nicely with conventional dimmers.

However, that does not mean that either of these is untrue:

  • LED lamps can be made to dim well with conventional dimmers, either with increase in cost or a compromise in efficiency
  • Dimmers can be made that dim LED lamps well

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

My parents house had several dimmers like that in the 1950's. They were in the wall, but they were HUGE and made an audible hum.

Please point me to somewhere I can buy these mythical LED dimmers.

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