Hi,
I recently bought some LED ceiling lights and installed it. It is operated by a 3-way switch, one of which is a dimmer switch( 6674-P0W - https://www.leviton.com/en/products/6674-p0w). The lights kept flickering when I turned them on. When the slider is in the low range, the lights would flicker or not turn on. When I push the slider from the low range into the high range, the lights would sometimes stabilize (slider at ~70% but doesn't work at 100%).
Either way the lights flicker when I turn the switch on. The only was to stop the flickering was to drop the slower low then slowly raise it to about 70-80%. This works sometimes. I tried adjusting the minimum load on the dimmer switch but it did not help.
Thinking the dimmer is incompatible, I went ahead and bought a new one( SUL06P-W-KB-L | Eaton slide dimmer | Eaton - https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/skuPage.SUL06P-W-KB-L.html). This new dimmer also did not work. In fact the light never stabilizes regardless of how I move the slider or play with the minimum load.
The LED lights are not the typical E26 LED lightbulbs and I have trouble figuring out what they are. I could not find further information on what they are, except for a serial number 40mm-2b4c-5730 (pictures below). A quick googling seems to suggest that 5730 are type of LEDs. There's 3 lights with 8 LEDs inside each (picture attached). I did some reading and was wondering if its because I need an LED driver. To be honest I'm not sure what the LED driver does. There also seems to be many of them.
I know the lights work because I tried wiring them without the 3-way dimmer switch. I know my dimmer switches are good because the first one worked with an incandescent light while the second one is brand new.
What do I need to do to fix the flickering? Is it an LED driver? If so which one?
Thank you in advance.
I recently bought some LED ceiling lights and installed it. It is operated by a 3-way switch, one of which is a dimmer switch( 6674-P0W - https://www.leviton.com/en/products/6674-p0w). The lights kept flickering when I turned them on. When the slider is in the low range, the lights would flicker or not turn on. When I push the slider from the low range into the high range, the lights would sometimes stabilize (slider at ~70% but doesn't work at 100%).
Either way the lights flicker when I turn the switch on. The only was to stop the flickering was to drop the slower low then slowly raise it to about 70-80%. This works sometimes. I tried adjusting the minimum load on the dimmer switch but it did not help.
Thinking the dimmer is incompatible, I went ahead and bought a new one( SUL06P-W-KB-L | Eaton slide dimmer | Eaton - https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/skuPage.SUL06P-W-KB-L.html). This new dimmer also did not work. In fact the light never stabilizes regardless of how I move the slider or play with the minimum load.
The LED lights are not the typical E26 LED lightbulbs and I have trouble figuring out what they are. I could not find further information on what they are, except for a serial number 40mm-2b4c-5730 (pictures below). A quick googling seems to suggest that 5730 are type of LEDs. There's 3 lights with 8 LEDs inside each (picture attached). I did some reading and was wondering if its because I need an LED driver. To be honest I'm not sure what the LED driver does. There also seems to be many of them.
I know the lights work because I tried wiring them without the 3-way dimmer switch. I know my dimmer switches are good because the first one worked with an incandescent light while the second one is brand new.
What do I need to do to fix the flickering? Is it an LED driver? If so which one?
Thank you in advance.
- TL;DR
- Need help with flickering LED used with dimmer. Tried adjusting minimum load on dimmer and changing dimmers but didn't work.
