Dual dimmer switch, one side stopped working.

Dimmer has gone squit by the sounds of it, or a loose wire in behind.

Lamps blow quite spectacularly these days, and a good blow can damage dimmers.

 

Buy a new one. The electronics in the dimmer unit as gone.

 

Sounds like your dimmer has gone kaput and needs changing.

 

hi. without test gear the easiest way to test it is the dimmer at fault would be to connect the bulbs which didnt work in to another fitting to test. that said, if youve replaced with new, the chances of all new being faulty is slim. assuming nothing has changed in the house which may have damaged the wiring it sounds like you need a new dimmer

 

Does sound like the switch, had to change mine recently for the very same reason.

 

If you were unscrupulous you could get a new dimmer from, oh I don't know, and fit it. If that works then jobs a good un and if it doesn't take it back for a refund.

 

This is why B&Q are having to close 60 stores.

 

And because they are bloody useless, apart from, as I saw today in the Guardian, being a hotspot for lesbian pick ups.

 

Apparantly B&Q is the place to meet up/ go to, if your LGBTQ

B&Q= Bi's & Q ueers from what I was told.

 

Hello, I have a problem - I am trying to replace a twin rocker switch with two dimmers, the picture below shows them - which wires go where please?

 

Put the red wires into the centre connections of the 2 dimmer modules then the yellow into L1 of one dimmer and the blue into the L! of the other module.

 

You know what, sen, we should get paid for all the advice we give out on 'ere.

 

That's the opposite of how it's wired up now, why would you do it differently, just asking like.

 

Because it was previously wrongly wired, although being single pole it doesn't make any difference really.

 

Just good practice though Imho.

 

Exactly!