Hi All
According to my leckie mate Alan (currently in Malta so I can't ask him) dimmer switches are the spawn of the Devil. Agin nature & no good will come of them. He reckons they are almost completely unreliable & nothing but trouble.
Anywho. Fitted one today for a customer. They had a energy saving bulb on the light somewhat like this
Only two terminals on the switch & two wires, one red & one black with red sleeve. Swapped them over & same thing happened.
Punter then told me the dimmer was a few years old & 'left over' from a hotel her son had helped to build. Hotels been there 15 years to my knowledge.
So, high chance the dimmer is U/S but I wondered - do dimmers work OK with these new fangled energy saving bulbs?
I'm sure I wired it right, but what would happen if I didn't? If its down to me not wiring it correctly I'll buy the punter a new one.