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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: picante on April 13, 2008, 11:44:34 PM

Title: continually dimming lights
Post by: picante on April 13, 2008, 11:44:34 PM

I'm using three-way dimmer switches. My lights now will fade on and off continually. I needed to disconnect the wall switch to turn off the lights. The switches are relatively new 6 months old. They were replaced after several years because they stopped functioning properly.

Title: Re: continually dimming lights
Post by: dave w on April 14, 2008, 12:11:17 PM

Quote from: picante on April 13, 2008, 11:44:34 PM

I'm using three-way dimmer switches. My lights now will fade on and off continually. I needed to disconnect the wall switch to turn off the lights. The switches are relatively new 6 months old. They were replaced after several years because they stopped functioning properly.

"The switches are relatively new 6 months old."

Are you saying the new switches worked fine for six months and then suddenly started the DIM-BRIGHT problem?

If, however, the new switches started the DIM-BRIGHT cycle as soon as installed, check the wiring on your companion switches.

Title: Re: continually dimming lights
Post by: picante on April 27, 2008, 12:58:19 AM

I'm saying they worked fine for about 6 months, then started acting out.