• desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    it’s less that dimmers are fancier than you thought and more like adjusting voltage or amperage without ridiculous losses is hard and or significantly more expensive than you thought.

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      23 hours ago

      Dimmers are incredibly simple with just triac and a variable resistor. However LEDs and CFLs do not work well with triac dimmers since they normally are expecting full voltage. Thats why you need “dimmable bulbs” becsuse they have circuitry to account for different voltages.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Makes sense.

      My point is that a little bit of deduction should lead someone to the conclusion that the dim light was an intentional feature going “wrong” or a bad bulb.