Dark winter

[d000hg]

LED = cold and clinical.

Nothing beats the incandescent bulb.

You've bought the "cold white" ones by mistake.

[d000hg]

Tried LEDs in one of the lights at my gaff. Awful, awful. The landlady is going to have to splash some cash to get it work.

I bought dimmable LEDs but all they did was flicker.

In one room, we spent months trying to figure out a really annoying flicker after fitting bright LEDs and a new LED dimmer. I changed the dimmer switch, all the bulbs, the fitting, before realising the same fitting worked fine with the same bulb and dimmer when wired up in my garage.
Come to the conclusion there's some issue with the wiring but that means pulling up the floor. For me flickering lights are how other people feel about a ticking clock or dripping sink, so I put in some new halogens.

[vetran]

In one room, we spent months trying to figure out a really annoying flicker after fitting bright LEDs and a new LED dimmer. I changed the dimmer switch, all the bulbs, the fitting, before realising the same fitting worked fine with the same bulb and dimmer when wired up in my garage.
Come to the conclusion there's some issue with the wiring but that means pulling up the floor. For me flickering lights are how other people feel about a ticking clock or dripping sink, so I put in some new halogens.

you need a bypass load

https://www.vesternet.com/pages/apnt...ith-led-lights

[d000hg]

you need a bypass load

https://www.vesternet.com/pages/apnt...ith-led-lights

I might do, but that wasn't the primary problem; they flickered even when I hardwired the fitting without a switch at all, let alone a dimming one... and only in this one room. Not seen one of those before, although LED dimming switches are themselves quite complex... the one I have has several modes you can put it in.

[Scorp1]

In one room, we spent months trying to figure out a really annoying flicker after fitting bright LEDs and a new LED dimmer. I changed the dimmer switch, all the bulbs, the fitting, before realising the same fitting worked fine with the same bulb and dimmer when wired up in my garage.
Come to the conclusion there's some issue with the wiring but that means pulling up the floor. For me flickering lights are how other people feel about a ticking clock or dripping sink, so I put in some new halogens.

It maybe worth having a spark in to test and do an EICR bit like an MOT on your electrics.

[d000hg]

It maybe worth having a spark in to test and do an EICR bit like an MOT on your electrics.

Yeah it's on the list... Old house!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Yeah it's on the list... Old house!

Nothing wrong with lead covered rubber insulated wire.

Lasts forever.

As long as you don't touch it.