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Old 15-Feb-2005, 21:25
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House lighting - wiring question

Up my stairs and landing there is not much natural daylight, so as part of the last bit of renovation my old house needs I've put in a whole bunch of those mains voltage halogen downlighters (10 of them in all).

Fine in the daytime, but a bit bright at night. So, I now want to fit a dimmer switch for them. .

I took the mains supply for the lights from the junction box (not the ceiling rose) that fed the original pendant light and then did away with the pendant. The light switches are the usual hallway/landing two way affairs with one switch at the top and one at the bottom of the stairs.

I had a quick look in Homebase (I only had 10 minutes before I needed to be somewhere else), but none of the dimmer switches had much info on them except for an installation card that was folded up in the pack that you couldn't read.

So, a couple of questions. Can you get dimmer switches that work in a two way circuit? I would only want one switch to be the dimmer. Second, I was fixated by the two-way question and didn't look to see if an ordinary common or garden dimmer can handle 500 watts worth?
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