Home DIY

Light fitting update, i successfully replaced it myself, or so i thought.

was working fine but we only had non dimmable bulbs, the switch is a modern dimmer.

dimmable bulbs arrived today and ive realised now its dark that even when the switch off its lit up very low

is this a dimmer, bulb, or my wiring problem? the previous bulb was incandescent if that makes a difference..

You need LED specific dimmers, in short led bulbs are fussy about the dimmers controlling them.

You might also find that even with a proper dimmer, only some dimmable bulbs work properly.

Probably the dimmer switch. Dimming LEDs is hard, and unlike incandescents will require pulse width modulation rather than a variable voltage supply.

Are you looking to buy an abandoned winery that was once used as school gym before a flood?

hm, the same switches are used throughout the whole house and there’s LED in most places, maybe need to try some more bulbs

Can you reprogram the dimmers? With mine you do a special combination of button presses and turns, like entering a cheat code on a game boy, and you enter a configuration mode. You can then set min and max or change the driving mode.

Not all LEDs respond to dimmers either. It's a minefield.

http://www.free-instruction-manuals.com/pdf/pa_359555.pdf

is this a dimmer, bulb, or my wiring problem? the previous bulb was incandescent if that makes a difference..

If it's clicked off there shouldn't be any power going to the bulb, so the dimmer portion of the switch isn't a consideration (assuming the switch is working!).

What can happen is a tiny amount of parasitic voltage can jump from the always live core of the switch cable to the bulb core, and if the bulb is sensitive enough it can power it.

A different bulb might fix it.

I'll look into it, it can be a bit dusty to touch though right?

Talking of dust, I made a lot of it in the cellar. Got a million nails to remover from the joists then it's getting ready to insulate (and sort these bloody pipes out)

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Straight out of a horror movie

Any clever idea on making these look nicer/less dangerous?

We’ve used a grinder to take the corners off the ones on the decking to make them a little less pointy and a little bit more child-safe.

Was thinking maybe some wooden cladding of some sort?
Other than that, was going to grind the corners off the rest and paint with fence paint when we do the fences.

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Ha! I think the owner was into wine for sure. Possibly the boards are reclaimed from a gym, who knows!

Thanks. Good to have my suspicions confirmed. Now to consider where the water came from.

Thanks. Yeah I think it has been unlived for a few months or maybe a year or so. Certainly over a winter.

Leave’em, early childhood lessons in pain are the most retained.
Kidding.
But not really.

I would normally agree, but there is a climbing frame in the garden, and having once fallen off a shelf and landed face first into the corner of a table, I’d rather avoid all the drama.

I’ll offset my safety measures by leaving some broken panes of glass and bottles of bleach lying around.

Ah! I lived in Zurich for a while so I understand. Before that I was in Munich, the Expats called it toytown as there was such little crime...

Well. I don't know when or how this happened.
Why would there be a hole here? Above kitchen cupboards?

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Apart from monsters.

Old (since removed) central heating pipes?

That’s the spirit.