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I put in led high hats in my soffit outside. They are operated by a timer switch. The problem is the lights are too bright. I want to add a dimmer switch to tone down the brightness. I tried to do it myself by adding a dimmer switch in between timer and lights. I tried all combinations possible and can’t seem to figure out how to get the dimmer to work. Any suggestions??
 
have you got the correct dimmer for LEDs? post a pick of the dimmer reverse side with cables connected (isolate circuit first.
 
have you got the correct dimmer for LEDs? post a pick of the dimmer reverse side with cables connected (isolate circuit first.

I thought I bought the right dimmer. The back has two gold screws no black.

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that dimmer is for incandescent or halogen lamps. it will not work correctly with LEDs.
 
that dimmer is for incandescent or halogen lamps. it will not work correctly with LEDs.
I see that now reading the cover ??‍♂️. As far as wiring it with the correct dimmer, would bypassing the dimmer with the common wire and connecting the hot to dimmer work or do I need to add another hot wire out of the timer? Thanks for all your help!
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Adding this dimmer switch red, black, red (white stripe 3 way) green. As far as connecting them, I have black white and cooper coming from timer and need to add black white cooper coming from the lights. Any suggestions on what to connect what to?
 

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it should work as your diagram. LED dimmers are generally what we call trailing edge, you want one with a min load < the total load of you LEDs and a max load > than that. e.g. dimmer will be stamped min. 20 watts, max. 60 watts. so the LED total load would be between 20 and 60 watts.
 

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