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wiring 4 pot lights in a circuit radr 08-17-2007
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Posted by on August 17, 2007, 2:11 am
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 ?


Posted by Mikepier on August 17, 2007, 4:35 am
On Aug 17, 2:11 am, r...@rogers.com wrote:
> 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 ?

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?


Posted by mm on August 17, 2007, 9:54 pm
wrote:

>On Aug 17, 2:11 am, r...@rogers.com wrote:
>> 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 ?
>
>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?

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

Posted by RBM on August 17, 2007, 6:45 am
If you in fact did wire the lights in series, that would do it



> 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 ?
>



Posted by Rudy on August 17, 2007, 4:26 pm
> 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 ?

You may have them wired in series



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