REFLECTOR: Dimmer Doubts and the Wiring Saga Continues

Terry Miles terrence_miles at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 18 06:24:25 CDT 2006


Hi All,
 
I'm up to the last holes into my panel and could use some collective
wisdom.  I have held off on the dimmer controls for last, since every
time I looked at the recomended drawing it looked backwards. 
 
Up until these dimmers came into my world I had assumed I would put all
my switches in the positive side of all the circuits.  You know "power,
fuse, switch, user, gound."  In the case of warning light dimmers you
can't do that.  The dimmer has to supply the light's plus voltage.  So
the warning light always has juice to it, then the trigger condition to
turn on the warning light has to be placed into it's path to ground.  So
you have this:  Power, dimmer, warning light, trigger condition, ground.

 
Is there any convention to switching the ground side with other devices?
I mean, I could wire the fuel pump or the taxi lights that same way with
the control switch acting as the needed continuity to ground instead of
being in the plus half of the circuit.
 
Thanks for looking at this.
 
FYI:  Van's has a nice 4 pot system that is all solid state rated a 1.5
amps each. (read: no heat sinks).  It also has a feature that will tie
or untie all the lights to a master dimmer.  
 
Regards,
Terry
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