I bought a Varilight dimmer about a year ago to control a fitting in my study which has 4 x 50 watt GU10 bulbs. I can control it by remote from my desk.
Today the lights went out - I put them back on and found they went out after about 5 seconds when on full - longer when dimmed. Tried removing a couple of bulbs - slight improvement.
Is it dying? Is this how they fail?
I understand this type of dimmer is best at withstanding the effect of a bulb failure - this is why I bought it in preference to a conventional dimmer .