I have a dimmer in my kitchen (its a three-way but I dont think that matters - and not the kind dimmable from both ends.) Also, its the back-lit kind (the ones with that slight orange light so you can see it in the dark) Also, its the kind where switch is a toggle and the dimmer is a small slider so you can set it at a certain level, and then just use the toggle. Not sure if all this matters but I want to make sure its clear what I have. Ok, so, the switch used to dim the lights from 0% up to 100%, like it should. But now, when the toggle is turned on, regardless of where the slide/dimmer is set, the light is at just about full power. So, basically, my dimmer now dims my light from about 90% to 100%. I wasnt home when it happened, but my wife said she heard a pop, like a bulb blew. Now, one of the 5 bulbs that the sitch controls is out. Im assuming that my switch and bulb blew together, but since I wasnt there I cant say for sure (maybe the bulb has been out for a week and I just didnt notice). Has anyone ever seen this? Any one know what it is. Could it be faulty wiring in any way? I did the wiring myself about 1 year ago. And for what its worth, here is a bit more on my setup. My kitchen has 9 lights (all recessed) I use two swicthes (5 on one and 4 on the other). They are both the same kind of swith (dimmable 3-way). They are in the same box so they probably share the same white and pigtailed the black (just guessing - it was over a year ago i did this). Each one has a regular 3 way on the other end. Thanks for any help.

I live in a manufactured home. It had a pendant light near the kitchen, I guess for a dining table but it was in the middle of the hall so I wanted to replace it with a simple "mushroom" fixture that doesn't hang down. I connected black wires to black and white wires to white and ground to bare copper but when I was doing this I noticed another black wire with a white line in the middle that had loose electrical tape on it. I thought it might be extra for ceiling fan or something so I just wrapped it back in tape. My light works except now the wall switch doesn't work! I can only turn it off by flipping the breaker. I asked at Home Depot but he said he had never heard of such a thing.