I'm installing LED lights around the house - some of the slimline recessed, Some LEDs as replacements for florescents. They are typically turning out to be too bright. all these LEDs say they are dimmable. If they were screw in bulbs, it'd be easy to change out the bulb. but these are integrated into the fixture themselves . can't just use 3 LED florescents in a fixture made for 4 (you'd see the odd pattern even through the translucent cover of a florescent fixture). For some outside / under the porch lights I added a dimmer in line with the timer in the garage - so it takes up 2 spots in a box now - timer and dimmer. no one gets near those to change the dimmer setting so it's not an issue. But for others like in the kitchen, are there dimmer / toggle switches that have the dimmer behind the faceplate or some other way to set the brightness then forget it / make it hard to change? I know of the toggle switches with the little dimmer slide switch next to them. and you can bump that slide switch. not what I'm looking for. I'd like to have to remove the faceplate, screwdriver turn a little disk to set the brightness, then the faceplate goes back on. Does that exist? Anyone else have an interest in something like that? or how do you solve LEDs that are too bright?

I have a 100' string of patio lights strung across my yard and the little 5A fuse has blown. I've blown fuses before but always when changing a bulb, so I know which bulb blew the fuse. This time it just blew when I turned the lights on from the power strip. The string attaches to the house at a height I can reach on a stepstool, then it runs across my sloping yard ending at a height of 20-25 feet that I can't reach at all. Any idea how I can figure out what blew the fuse (or any other tips)?