Help! New led lights don't work
Replaced 4 small flush mount lights over sink. Bought led bulbs. They stay on really dim all the time. Switch won't turn them on or off. Dimmer switch does nothing either
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- Check the polarity but when reversed they usually do not work at all. Try one somewhere else
- Some will do that when they are reversed.
Reverse the wires
Admin - I see you mentioned a dimmer switch setup. If this dimmer was for your incandescent automotive type bulbs I don't think it will work on LED LIGHTS... LED lights take a different type of DIMMER system to make them work then the Incandescent automotive type bulbs use.
Lets hope the reverse wires is the problem but in my case here if the wires were reversed I did not get any LED operations at all...
Roy Ken - My guess is that it is the dimmer. Most LED's will not function with this kind of a device in line.
- Don't just believe the color code of the wires, incandescent bulbs don't care about the polarity so often the builder didn't care either.
- dimmer switch
- It was the dimmer. We changed it to an on/off switch and it's fine. We can get a dimmer for led's ??
DC&MC wrote:
It was the dimmer. We changed it to an on/off switch and it's fine. We can get a dimmer for led's ??
Some LED bulbs are dimmable, others are not. Then there is the switch ...- They won't work with a dimmer switch. I have a dimmer switch over my driver position in our MH. LED just glows. I had to remove it. Like a previous post mentions try it in a regular socket somewhere else.
- I've never used one before but there are many listed on GOOGLE SEARCH
LED DIMMERs
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Roy Ken
