 Electrical engineers, ...or anyone else that may know |
| Electrical engineers, ...or anyone else that may know |
 Nov 8 2007, 12:18 AM
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Is it possible to blow a dimmer switch? I plugged it in and blew the light I was messing with but it kind of seems like the switch itself is blown, is that possible?
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Nov 8 2007, 09:16 AM
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 Oh baby bring me down  Group: Agents Posts: 4,115 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Way out yonder Member No.: 68 |
Its something a ee should understand at least. You can build your own dimmer with a chopper circuit and a timer of some sort. Old dimmer switches used something like a resistor, but that wastes power. Instead the new ones use pulse width modulation on the circuit in the khz range and vary the duty cycle (how much on time vs total time in one cycle) The dimmer switch probably blew its triac.
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Nov 8 2007, 03:17 PM
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 New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15 |
QUOTE (chook @ Nov 8 2007, 09:16 AM)  Its something a ee should understand at least. You can build your own dimmer with a chopper circuit and a timer of some sort. Old dimmer switches used something like a resistor, but that wastes power. Instead the new ones use pulse width modulation on the circuit in the khz range and vary the duty cycle (how much on time vs total time in one cycle) The dimmer switch probably blew its triac.  wow...that was hot
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Nov 8 2007, 05:51 PM
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 GORILLA FLUFFER Group: Agents Posts: 7,711 Joined: 23-February 06 From: lubbock Member No.: 50 |
QUOTE (Jessica @ Nov 8 2007, 03:17 PM) wow...that was hoti love it when chuck purrs sweet sweet electrical knowledge at me --------------------  QUOTE (Jessica @ May 7 2007, 01:15 PM) but yeehaw dammit. YEEHAW QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Jun 26 2008, 07:51 PM) ok once upon a time I jacked myself off retarded. Licking anuses, one kindergarten class at a time!! |
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