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Right I cannot get my head around this one.
I have a 3 lamp chandelier - I have done a drawing of the connections below.
It has been placed on the 1st floor 5amp lighting main in the existing ceiling rosette (which previously had a 80 watt filament bulb.)
I bought a LED dimmer switch (with an automatic overload cut out).
I bought 3x 3W (40W equivalent) dimmable LEDs.
I screwed the first bulb in, turns on no issues.
I screwed the second in and the dimmer switch cuts out.
I repeat this a few times, resetting the switch in between, I re-check the wiring to the lamp holders, all fine visually (i.e. the diagram I drew is accurate).
I then override the automatic cut out, screw in all 3 bulbs, turn it on and it blows the dimmer switch up!
I then swap broken dimmer for a normal switch and once again with a single bulb in it works fine. It works fine in each individual lamp holder with a single bulb - i.e. there isn't a problem with one of the lamp holders vs another.
But then when I screwed in two bulbs and flipped the switch it blew my main 5amp fuse in the fuse box.
So I am now baffled. Presumably it is overloading the circuit. But how can 3 low wattage LED bulbs do that?
If it was a loose connection then surely it would blow with just one bulb in? But it doesn't.
I am really puzzled?
Help much appreciated.
Thanks
Right I cannot get my head around this one.
I have a 3 lamp chandelier - I have done a drawing of the connections below.
It has been placed on the 1st floor 5amp lighting main in the existing ceiling rosette (which previously had a 80 watt filament bulb.)
I bought a LED dimmer switch (with an automatic overload cut out).
I bought 3x 3W (40W equivalent) dimmable LEDs.
I screwed the first bulb in, turns on no issues.
I screwed the second in and the dimmer switch cuts out.
I repeat this a few times, resetting the switch in between, I re-check the wiring to the lamp holders, all fine visually (i.e. the diagram I drew is accurate).
I then override the automatic cut out, screw in all 3 bulbs, turn it on and it blows the dimmer switch up!
I then swap broken dimmer for a normal switch and once again with a single bulb in it works fine. It works fine in each individual lamp holder with a single bulb - i.e. there isn't a problem with one of the lamp holders vs another.
But then when I screwed in two bulbs and flipped the switch it blew my main 5amp fuse in the fuse box.
So I am now baffled. Presumably it is overloading the circuit. But how can 3 low wattage LED bulbs do that?
If it was a loose connection then surely it would blow with just one bulb in? But it doesn't.
I am really puzzled?
Help much appreciated.
Thanks