Question for MEXICOWANDERER
Mex, my Airstream trailer came with no illuminated switches where you can tell if the switch is turned on at a glance from a distance. I have added illuminated switches to 3 locations, but there is an...
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Chris Bryant wrote:
If there is room, you could put in a lighted on off switch just ahead of the dimmer, and just use the dimmer to dim, and the switch for on/off.
Good idea, but the dimmer slider is beside the on/off switch. Adding a lighted switch would give me two switches to turn on.
STBRetired wrote:
On the printed circuit board there will be a circuit path from the normally open contact of the switch to the input to the dimmer circuitry. You would need to tap into that pathway for the "hot" side of your LED and then use the ground wire for the other connection. The input side of the dimmer circuitry will have full voltage, as opposed to the load side which will vary according to the dimmer setting. You will most likely need to gently scrape off the green varnish and carefully solder a lead wire to that pathway.
That is what I was afraid the answer was going to be. I am not skilled enough to risk ruining the PCB to do that. I will just live with the risk of offending my neighbors by leaving the light on before I try that.
Almot wrote:
Maybe my trailer is really that different, but for inside lights can't you tell whether it's On or Off by looking at the actual light?
For outside lights - yes, I can understand the need.
It is an outside light. Airstream has put an LED light strip under the awning where it meets the side of the trailer. I just would like an indicator inside that I will see when going to bed to remind me that I left that light on.
I have already replaced the light switches for both the outside scare light and the outside step light with illuminated switches. They were just simple snap in switches though.
This is the switch in question:
