wiring 4 pot lights in a circuit

Aug 17, 2007 4 Replies
R

after running the 14/2 wire for 4 50w halogen pot lights in series on



1 switch on a 15A breaker, I installed 1 pot light with a dimmer switch. This worked wonderfully well and I can dim the 1 pot light with the installed dimmer switch. After I installed the remaining 3 pot lights, the 4 pot lights dimmed even if the dimmer switch was not lowered down. What could have caused the lights to go very dim and cannot be controlled by the dimmer ?
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M

I would first bypass the switch and see if the lights still dim. If they don't, sounds like a bad switch.

If the lights still dim even after bypassing the switch, then is it possible you wired thses lights in series rather than in parallel?

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R

If you in fact did wire the lights in series, that would do it

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You may have them wired in series

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M

Could be, since he says "in series" in the first line. :)

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