3 Way Dimmer switch

[Sav]

Hi everyone,
Hope your all well and busy !

Going to see a minor job. Lady wants hallway downlights (dimmable Aurora transformers are already fitted ), to operate on a 3 way switch system.

She wants a dimmer at one end, normal intemidiate switch in middle and dimmer at the other end.

As far as I know, if you have a set up like this, the lights will flicker due to the dimmers conflicting with each other ?? I am not sure on a 2 way if using dimmers would be ok, I think they would.

I had a similar setup a while back and I remember fitting Varilight units, whereby you have a master and two slave dimmers, that way, all 3 can be dimmable.

Is that correct people, or have you had any similar expierences and found a way around it?

Thanks and best regards,

Sav

 

[cagedanimal2010]

as far as i'm aware 2 dimmers on 1 set of lights wont work, never used the varilight units so cant comment,

danny

 

[bugsy]

One dimmer per circuit unless your using lighting control system, ( Lutron, Rako, C-Bus )

 

[HRL]

Two dimmers can be used however, if one dimmer is turned down to 50%, leaving the second at 100% power and then the next operation is from the switch with 100% control it will only actually have 50% of operation, (unable to turn the light levels up above what the first switch is set to...
Not an ideal system...
Hope that reads okay...