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K… Just since it is officially supported by ST, picked up today 2 of these from Home Depot and decided to put them outdoors on the regular dusk to dawn scones by the garage door. And tried to dim it and it started flashing like crazy. Ordinary Philips led bulbs on those scones used to dim much better and brighten up on motion. In my opinion, this things quality is far inferior than Philips regular dimmable LED’s.
If you put smart bulbs into dimming fixtures that used to control dumb bulbs it’s very likely that the problem is incompatibility between the switch and the bulb. Not a problem with the bulb. The fixture will be expecting at least a 50 draw, won’t get it, and everything goes bananas.
I see a lot of topics where being able to point to a FAQ on this topic would help a lot. I’ve got a few personal rules of thumb for lighting installations, but I thought it would be a lot better if someone who’s written one of the ST dimmer handlers wrote it so they could mention anything ST or Smart App specific. So this post is definitely a request for a FAQ, not a FAQ itself. But just to get things started…Feel free to use, edit, or toss any of the following.
TWO PHYSICAL WAYS TO CONTROL DIMMING
Dimming is either controlled by the amount of current the switch sends on the wire to the bulb or the amount of current the bulb decides to draw from the wire.
DIFFERENT KINDS OF SWITCHES
A switch that controls the amount of current sent may be networked or not.
Some switches don’t control …
Try the same bulbs in a fixture not controlled by a dimmer switch that changes current flow and see if it’s any better.