Varilight Touch Dimmers

Apr 07, 2005 3 Replies

Anyone know if it is possible to control these (Sold by TLC) with anything other than a slave unit?



The slave units cant be used on their own, so they must just tell the master what to do. The masters and slaves have three connections - Live, S and Load - In a normal one switch configuration, the switch is connected like a normal switch, not suing the S terminal If you want to add a slave, you just connect the slave up to the three terminals on the master, leaving the light connected as it was.



I was going to try and wire one up, then short the load to the S to see if that did it, then if it didn't, the live to the S - haven't done that yet, and wondered if anyone else had!



(I want to integrate it with a PIR, so it turns the lights off after a set time of no movement, as the kitchen lights seem to stay on all the time otherwise!)



Sparks...


Maybe, that's why I havent tried it yet! ...but as I managed to get a double one for a pound recently, it won't matter really :-) (The shop said they had lost the remote control for it, thats why it was so cheap, I didnt tell them, they are sold seperatly!)

I will give it a go, and see if it makes light, or smoke!

Sparks...

Well, I tried it, and I'm still here! If the light is on, it can be turned off by momentaraly shorting the Live and Load This is exactly what I want to do :-)

To turn it back on again, shorting the S and Load seems to put it back to the same brightness as it was at.

I cant seem to dim it, but that doesn't bother me :-)

Sparks...

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