track light dimmers
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track light dimmers
Question?? can you put 4 track lights with 4 50 watt halogens on 1 dimmer switch? my issue is I bought a 600 watt dimmer switch installed it, and it works, but the aluminum plate around the switch gets pretty hot to the touch. It doesn't throw a breaker, the wires are not hot, just the aluminum plating. I then went and bought a 1000 watt dimmer switch, installed it and the same thing happened, it still got hot so I took 4 bulbs out of one track light to reduce the watage again but it still getting hot. Any ideas??
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Dimmers DO get hot. As long as the total load in watts does not exceed the dimmer's rating you should be okay. This is assuming that you do not remove any of the "fins" from the dimmer nor have multiple dimmers in a multi-gang box.
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Joe it is a total of 800 watts... and my dimmer is rated for 1000.....so you think I will b OK??
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Dimmers DO get hot. As long as the total load in watts does not exceed the dimmer's rating you should be okay. This is assuming that you do not remove any of the "fins" from the dimmer nor have multiple dimmers in a multi-gang box.
Dimmers DO get hot. As long as the total load in watts does not exceed the dimmer's rating you should be okay. This is assuming that you do not remove any of the "fins" from the dimmer nor have multiple dimmers in a multi-gang box.
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Thanks for ur help...I'll give it a try..is there anything I should be cautious about?