Uses Of Dimmer Switches
Dimmer switches help in creating a good environment in dinning room or home theater as per your choice. They are not so difficult to install. Once you decide to buy these dimmer switches for your home, have good knowledge about them.
Dimmer switches can only work with 120V incandescent bulbs and halogen bulbs. They can not be used with fluorescent bulbs and most compact fluorescent bulbs.
The basic reason behind this is that dimmer switches are meant to work with bulbs with wire filaments, which are present in 120V incandescent and halogen bulbs. On the other hand, fluorescent bulbs and compact fluorescent bulbs contain a gas that requires certain amount of voltage to operate the light. Also for low voltage halogen bulbs, a special dimmer switch should be used.
Dimmer switches can be of two types- single pole and 3-way dimmer switches. In case you require a switch that you need to on/off from a single point then go for single pole switches and if you want to access the light through different switches then go for 3 way switch. But out of these switches only one will be dimmer switch.
Old dimmer switches used to operate by controlling the voltage of light fixture. When you turn up or turn down the dimmer switch, voltage also varied along with it. Mainly a rheostat was behind all this but in general it was energy inefficient.
But now, TRIAC are used to operate the dimmer switches. TRIAC can efficiently and quickly power on or power off a light bulb. This frequency is so high that no one can detect when the bulb was off.
Since the light is being tuned off several times in these dimmer switches, therefore they can help you in saving considerable amount of energy. As the light bulb gets rest in between, some years are also added to its life. Rough estimate says that, if you will dim a bulb to 50% of its output then you can save 40% of energy and can increase its life to 5-20 times.
In the last, a dimmer switch can give a smart look to your dining room, living room and especially a home theater room.
Scott Rodgers is a writer with ample experience in electricians work all across the nation. His exemplary guidance has created business for a lot many Grove City Electricians and Fort Washington Electricians .
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