Can Dimmer Light Be Used for Dimmer Fan

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   jz New Fellow member

   I've had several ceiling fans in the past and I was wondering if I could fit a standard dimmer switch as the wall switch to an ordinary ceiling fan / low-cal (aka ceiling fan with a lite combined).

   I know I'd have to find i which has a dimmerable bulb aka not halogen.

   But would this be OK ?

   Cheers in accelerate.

2. All the ceiling fan's i've e'er seen use induction motors,their speed is controlled by the frequency of the supply and so can't be controlled past a dimmer.

3. 

   jz New Member

   I'm not too bothered near changing the fan speed via the dimmer, its just for the light.

   Would information technology impairment it in any fashion using a dimmer ?

   I would effort and not use the via via the dimmer anyways, simply the light when the fan isn't in utilize.

4. I recollect you're more likely to damage the dimmer than the fan. Dimmers are designed for resistive loads just the motor is an inductive load, I recollect you lot should forget the dimmer idea really, unless you lot wanted to accommodate a carve up supply & switch for the fan motor, (not very practical).

5. 

   jz New Member

   Hmmm, couldn't I put an inline fuse in somehow to protect the dimmer ?

   I've not seen dimmers with fuses in already

6. 

   jz New Member

7. Aurora Switches are all pants.

   You wont exist able to dim an inductive and combined fan/light load. Listen to Seneca

8. Nearly ceiling fan lights i have installed have provisions for 2 switch wires in the plumbing equipment, then if you lot really desire dim the calorie-free, modify the switch wire to a 3 core and earth and then you will and then have your two separate switch wires, and fit a 2 gang grid switch, i side normal for fan, i side dimmer for light

   Or fit. Lower wat bulb if the light is just as well brught!

9. 

   jz New Member

   Whats a "2 gang filigree switch" ?

   I had a wait earlier and thought I could slip an extra cablevision into the fan to the light. I spoke to a friend and he said 2 cadre cablevision and that a cable direct from the light to the dimmer on the wall would exist ok.

   Merely I guess, manifestly I would need to add the alive feed in too, hmmm.

10. If the fan is a 'timer' model (as nearly are) then it's quite acceptable to use a dimmer switch without fright of damage to either the dimmer or the fan. The reason for this should be quite obvious, but for those who don't sympathize the nature of a timer-fan, I'd be pleased to explain.

    Lucia.

11. Lucia, I think the op is talking virtually a ceiling fan/light unit of measurement every bit oftentimes fitted in bedrooms and conservatories rather than the conventional bathroom timer fan?

12. What, a CEILING fan, Lucia ?

    On a dimmer ?

    Dimmer isn't a speed regulator.

    Surely the fan needs full/constant power ?

    Mr. HandyAndy - Really

14. Lucia, I think the op is talking about a ceiling fan/calorie-free......

    Give thanks you Seneca. I see what you mean. I'm a silly billy once I've had one over the eight.....

    Lucia ten

15. No problem Lucia, it happens to us all at times!

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    jz New Member

    "Most ceiling fan lights i have installed take provisions for 2 switch wires in the fitting, so if y'all really want dim the lite, change the switch wire to a three cadre and world so you will then have your ii separate switch wires, and fit a ii gang grid switch, one side normal for fan, one side dimmer for light "

    OK, so what wires connect to where ?

    Earlier I get out my chisel and making a channel for the cable.

    Don't worry I won't be doing any piece of work until I'm 200% certain most all this stuff!!

17. Step 1 - become out and buy a ceiling fan.

    Footstep ii - have it apart.

    Step 3 - come back on hither with your results.

    Step 4 - er, not a step, merely a question: why not a 'halogen'?

18. Before y'all do annihilation y'all need to driblet the ceiling fan and check it has provisiobs for the 2 switch wires otherwise no affair what you exercise it wont be possible to practise what your subsequently.
    Once youve dropped it if you see v separate connector blocks on the plumbing fixtures, with something like loop, neutral, earth, ls1, ls2 then you know you can do this. If theres just 4 blocks then changes are this fitting wont let you lot practise why your after.

    Notwithstanding, if the fitting is ok, run a new 3 core and earth cablevision from switch to light, and disconnect old switch wire every bit its now redundant. Then connect as follows
    In light:- brown to loop, gray(with brown sleeving on) to ls1, black( with dark-brown sleeving on) to ls2, and sleeve the earth and connect with the rest
    In the switch, brown to common on one switch with a link to common of second switch, so grey to l1 in dimmer switch, and blackness on to l1 on the other switch which volition be normal.( grayness and black may need swapping over depending on which i operates fan or low-cal. And also connect the earth in the switch to earth lug in the back box.if the switch yous buy is metallic so this will need earthing too.
    Skillful luck

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    jz New Member

    Damn I can't become actress wires downward the the light through the fan.

    Theres a plastic / condom collar, just seems to the up to the light part. I would try and suspension it off but it must be there for a reason.

    

20. Why don't you just give up on this one, accept it's not feasible and only put a smaller lamp (bulb) in if information technology's also bright?

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