I confess up front I have done little to diagnose this yet...
I have switched most house lights to LED. I always buy dimmable LED's, often from Home Depot or Lowes and whatever they have that looks reputable and on sale, so a variety of brands (Feit, Cree, Ecosmart, GE). Almost all are spotlight/PAR types in cans.
I always buy LED compatible dimmers, mostly Lutron, last was Legrand trying to see if it is better (in this regard not).
I also have a couple of UPB dimmers driving LED lights, but all conventional bulb replacements.
Most of the normal dimmers have a spot where they flicker horribly. Some are at the low point, and I adjust its cutoff above it. Some will just randomly start flickering after working fine for hours, then after a few minutes quit.
The UPB have never flickered - luck, type of bulb, better dimmer, I have no idea.
What I should probably do is start swapping dimmers around and see what combinations work and do not, but hoping for a bit of insight here first....
Giving that I am buying lights ostensibly dimmable, and dimmers ostensibly for LED's, is there a most likely culprit?
If I got better dimmers (like... ?) is that the most likely fix?
Or is it because I am buying bad bulbs?
Or is the state of the art one of "check each dimmer's list against each bulb type and buy only that". Given the rate of change it is actually hard to FIND the bulbs that work with any given dimmer per the manufacturer.
Any general advice of the best path? I would even use this as an excuse to replace a lot of switches with UPB ones if that would actually solve my problem.
Thanks in advance,
Linwood
I have switched most house lights to LED. I always buy dimmable LED's, often from Home Depot or Lowes and whatever they have that looks reputable and on sale, so a variety of brands (Feit, Cree, Ecosmart, GE). Almost all are spotlight/PAR types in cans.
I always buy LED compatible dimmers, mostly Lutron, last was Legrand trying to see if it is better (in this regard not).
I also have a couple of UPB dimmers driving LED lights, but all conventional bulb replacements.
Most of the normal dimmers have a spot where they flicker horribly. Some are at the low point, and I adjust its cutoff above it. Some will just randomly start flickering after working fine for hours, then after a few minutes quit.
The UPB have never flickered - luck, type of bulb, better dimmer, I have no idea.
What I should probably do is start swapping dimmers around and see what combinations work and do not, but hoping for a bit of insight here first....
Giving that I am buying lights ostensibly dimmable, and dimmers ostensibly for LED's, is there a most likely culprit?
If I got better dimmers (like... ?) is that the most likely fix?
Or is it because I am buying bad bulbs?
Or is the state of the art one of "check each dimmer's list against each bulb type and buy only that". Given the rate of change it is actually hard to FIND the bulbs that work with any given dimmer per the manufacturer.
Any general advice of the best path? I would even use this as an excuse to replace a lot of switches with UPB ones if that would actually solve my problem.
Thanks in advance,
Linwood