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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: wildh on November 15, 2007, 09:22:46 PM

Title: Socket Rockets - Don't work with a dimmer switch?
Post by: wildh on November 15, 2007, 09:22:46 PM

Hello...new to the forum.  Just got a couple socket rockets and a IR543 so that I could turn off the rear ceiling lights without having to rewire things.  I have four can lights hooked up to one dimmer wall switch.  I would like to keep the dimming capabilities but want to turn off the two rear lights and X10 products seemed like a great thing.  They work in other parts of the house, but not on the lights I want to control.  Do the socket rockets not work if the wiring runs through a dimmer switch?????  Any work arounds?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Socket Rockets - Don't work with a dimmer switch?
Post by: Charles Sullivan on November 15, 2007, 10:24:06 PM

Change the dimmer switch to one which can be controlled with X10 and forget the Socket Rocket for that location.

Title: Re: Socket Rockets - Don't work with a dimmer switch?
Post by: wildh on November 16, 2007, 09:49:33 AM

Will the X10 dimmer switch allow me to turn off 2 of the 4 lights completely?  I want to be able to control them seperately without rewiring.

Thanks,

Tom

Title: Re: Socket Rockets - Don't work with a dimmer switch?
Post by: Charles Sullivan on November 16, 2007, 02:00:56 PM

Quote from: wildh on November 16, 2007, 09:49:33 AM

Will the X10 dimmer switch allow me to turn off 2 of the 4 lights completely?  I want to be able to control them seperately without rewiring.

Thanks,

Tom

OK, now I see what you want to do, and an X10 Wall Switch dimmer won't solve the problem.
However X-10 SL575  screw-in dimmers will work if they'll fit in your fixtures.  http://www.smarthome.com/2005.html
They're available on eBay for $16, shipping included.  See: http://stores.ebay.com/The-Home-Automation-Store