3 way light switch dimmers

Posted by sleepdog on December 22, 2005, 9:58 am

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For a standard 3-way switch setup I think you can only have one of the
two switches be a dimmer. I cannot recall if this is an NEC thing or
limitation of the hardware. Might have something to do with the fact
that dimmer switches tend to get kind of hot. I recently installed a
dimmer on a three way and l limited the wattage to 390w on a 600w
dimmer. I think NEC allows up to 80% wattage on the dimmer rating and
I'm at 65%. hooray for me

Posted by Joe on December 22, 2005, 1:27 pm

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You need a dimmer designed for this application, the Lutron "Maestro"
mentioned earlier will work. I have Lutron's "Spacer" which also comes with
a remote control
Joe

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