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Good evening,

We are renovating our house and I replaced the halogen MR16 bulbs with Philips LED dimmable version in one of the bedrooms. Once fitted they appeared to work fine. I left them on and came back to the room to find it in darkness and now noting works. (Even tried replacing the old halogen bulbs) The lighting on on a 1 gang 2 way dimmer set up with 2 dimmers operating the lights.

Hopefully someone can help!

Many Thanks
Martin
 
So, unless you upgraded the transformers for the lights to dimmable LED compatible ones and are using a dimmer capable of driving such things, you could have damaged the transformers or the dimmers.
 
Welcome to the forums by the way :)

If you want a product recommendation, I generally go for Varilight dimmers and their transformers which are dimmable LED compatible.
 
Hi Martin - you have just witnessed the unfortunate lack of interworking with lights. If you felt able, you could perhaps replace the dimmer with a switch and see if that works. Take pics of the connections before starting and before that make sure the power is off ....
 
Thanks Wilko. I’m gutted, the led bulbs were expensive but I thought it would be a good idea and efficient in the long run. To have them fail within 5 minutes!

I’ve tonight treplaced one of the dimmers (the main one) for a varilight one from Screwfix and so far nothing!
 
You cannot have two dinners operating the same lights, they will conflict with each other and burn out the dimmer, transformer or both. One needs to be a switch only
 
Dinger809 Thanks that’s interesting, it was like this when we moved in and it worked only ok (did flicker a bit) with the halogen bulbs.

May be worth replacing both switches then and one of them with a ‘normal’ on off switch?

Many Thanks
 
If you've not got any test gear, it might be worth employing the services of a local (preferably recommended by family/friends/colleague) spark to check the various components to establish exactly what's wrong.
 

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