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[RichardMoore]

Hi am an electrician with the following dilemma. I've installed 9 dimmable led's on a led dimmer but the minimum load of the dimmer is 60 watts. The lamps are 4.5 watts and only have a total load of 40.5watts When I dim them down they do so far then they begin to flicker. But when i install a standard 50watt lamp the don't.my question if I can explain is. If I was to install a resistor at the EOL of the correct size to increase the current thus the load would increase to a significant size to replace the standard lamp and correcting the problem I have also any advice on resistor sizes that may work thanks for any input much appreciated

 

[tazz]

A trailing edge low wattage dimmer is what you need. Failing that, a suitably rated capacitor would do the trick, I often have to use caps when fitting grafik eyes.

Good trick, keep the circuit saturated.