compact flourescent dimming

[al.j]

Can anyone tell me if you can dim compact flourescents using a conventional dimmer, or is a specific dimmer module required?

 

[M107]

Funny enough I spoke to a megaman rep on Monday, they recommend you only use the Richmond Grid 400 CFL dimmer on their lamps. They also recommend a maximum of 8 lamps per dimmer.

Another problem is the lamps will not reach full brightness if a dimmer is used, they had a complaint from a major department store as some lamps were on dimmers & others were on standard switches, but when all sets were on & the dimmers were set to max the lamps were still not as bright as the lamps on the bog standard switch.

He said other dimmers will work but shorten the lamp life by half, or the lamps will flicker when turned full on or set on lowest dimmer setting.

 

[batty]

Nightmare dimming them had to use 1500 watt richmond dimmer to dim 12 lamps cost nearly

 

[Danny]

The megaman dimmerable (made up word!) range are pretty good and their website has a list of approved dimmers with the permissable dimmerable load converted for you ...

http://www.megamanuk.com/megaman-technology/dimmerable/