Dinushan Paranavithana Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 I have been trying to use a square dual load wireless adaptive phase dimmer (C4-SDAPD240-N) to toggle a non dimmable lighting load. After few toggles, the switch starts indicating an error (blinking red). On Composer, it notifies in red that it's a short circuit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lowe Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 the proper solution for a non-dimable load would be to use a switch. Depending on the type of load that you have connected to the dimmer it could be pulling too much current and actually damaging the dimmer. If it is going into a short circuit like this it is not going to work and will kill the dimmer. Andrew luecke 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 On 12/15/2023 at 11:02 AM, Matt Lowe said: and actually damaging the dimmer or the load (likely a motor) for that matter will get damaged. While dimmers can be made to 'act' more or less like a switch in that you can set the minimum on to 100% and the ramp rates to the shortest interval (always forget it that's 100ms or 250ms) that doesn't make it an actual switch. Those settings may work fine for certain non-dimmable lights (ie non dimmable LED bulbs - if it'll work is NOT a given though) - it's not meant to be running motors such as pumps or bathroom fans etc. Also if the issue is that you're getting a short: it certainly wouldn't work to 'just' make it 'act' like a switch. RyanE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 Yeah, don't do that. RyanE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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