Dimmer keeps blowing

[Octopus]

Can i remove the remote transmitter / receiver and just wire dirt to the transformer? I dont need the remote justw want it to dim!

Me thinks you need a different light fitting

 

[Lucien Nunes]

As per my post above, the remote receiver can probably be bypassed. Although you are not using it, the electronics are still in circuit and incompatible with the chopped waveform of a dimmed supply. What is this transformer you mention? Are they not 230V lamps?

 

[liamruairi]

Oh yeh they are sorry, see hee: 5th picture along for what the internal of the fitting looks like. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301446683473?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

[Lucien Nunes]

That's handy, a self-contained module. So it looks like all the lines are commoned in one crimp to a black lead, and the neutrals in two sets to the blue and white. So it would be the work of minutes to connect those leads to the corresponding incoming terminals and get rid of the module completely.

 

[liamruairi]

How do i do this then, any diagrams anywhere online? Is it as simple as joining black to black in a terminal block and the white and blue to red incoming? The seller just emailed me a pdf of how to remove receiver but its a large zip so will have to wait till later to unzip it and have a look. If i did connect them all straight to the mains with no reciever am i right i. Thinking i wouldnt need a transformer and a dimmer would work (should work!) fine?

 

[Geordie Spark]

How do i do this then, any diagrams anywhere online? Is it as simple as joining black to black in a terminal block and the white and blue to red incoming? The seller just emailed me a pdf of how to remove receiver but its a large zip so will have to wait till later to unzip it and have a look. If i did connect them all straight to the mains with no reciever am i right i. Thinking i wouldnt need a transformer and a dimmer would work (should work!) fine?

Unzip & read that PDF first THEN start asking questions - if you need to.
It's pointless jumping the gun!!

 

[liamruairi]

Ok so the 'pdf' was actuqlly a zip file with 35 pictures of the assembly process if the remote unit was to be removed. Attached here is one of the final pictures along with a picture of the reciever unit. Looks fairly straight forward, all lights are tethered to one of 2 brown/blue which would then tie in the feed in at the ceiling rose, correct? Then all I have to do is connect a normal dimmer switch at the wall and it should work?
http://tinypic.com/r/214wnxw/8
http://tinypic.com/r/1zybfno/8